Very beautiful. Time flies past. Not Wes' best, but a very close third.
Friday, November 30, 2007
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The DarJeeling Limited
Very beautiful. Time flies past. Not Wes' best, but a very close third.
Textile Porn
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Textile porn? Have The C'mons been stringing
us along - what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/cmons
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"If the inquiry names names, then names will
be named." - Gordon Brown, PM.
"The house has noticed the Prime Minister's
remarkable transformation in the past few
weeks - from Stalin to Mr Bean." - Vince Cable
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* Say hello to the Wine-alikes
* Munchkins: The true story
* Charts: Leona Lewis is still number one
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>> Beware the Crack-Finger <<
The latest thing to blacken Amy's name
Photos of Amy Winehouse have highlighted an
unfortunate new physical development - a
nicely blackened thumb and index finger.
Either she's been lighting a lot of candles
recently or it seems that she might have
winter 2007's least on-trend accessory -
The Crack Finger. Users burn rocks with a
cigarette lighter at an angle which discolours
the fingers and makes the lighter plastic
melt against the skin.
FYI: Why does Blake Winehouse always wear that
pork-pie hat? "Male pattern baldness", we're told.
FYI 2: What is Amy Winehouse's favourite tube
station? High Barnet. (Sorry)
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>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
Which ex-England rugby player made few friends
at a corporate after-dinner speaking engagement
recently? A waiter tried to clear up the
tables as he was speaking, so the rugby star
greeted him with the phrase, "Excuse me,
could you fuck off? And go back to Italy."
The tour manager of which indie band got so
sick of the band getting wasted on gak every
day that he started crushing up pro-plus tablets
and getting someone to sell them to his charges?
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Hot Chip's next single, Ready For The Floor,
is brilliant
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>> Say hello to the Wine-alikes <<
The sound of 2008 - much like 2007
Every day the music industry comes up with
another excuse for the implosion of their
hegemony. File-sharing, technology, climate
change, monkeys (probably). We've got another
theory. A lot of people in it don't know their
arse from their elbow. The one thing they do
know how to do is copy what is already
successful. Amy Winehouse has been huge in
2007, so next year we get loads of bluesy
female soloists.
Adele - we brought you her music back
in the summer - and she has the charisma
and talent to take on Amy head-to-head:
http://www.myspace.com/adelelondon
Duffy - somewhat dull and mumsy, the perfect
soundtrack to a pro-biotic yogurt ad:
http://www.myspace.com/duffymyspace
Beth Rowley - disturbingly tall former
jazz singer. Interesting:
http://www.myspace.com/bethrowley
Gabriella Cilmi - Winehouse-lite, but
better looking, and without the
Crack Finger:
http://tinyurl.com/29bydy
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The centre of Khartoum is laid out like the shape
of the Union Jack.
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>> Whatever happened to... <<
David Sneddon. Remember him?
In 2002 David Sneddon unexpectedly won Fame
Academy. And that was that. So what's he doing
now? Well, we spotted him at Bush Hall this week
getting drunk at the Colby Caillet gig. This is
what we learned. His parents are coming to visit
him this weekend. (He lives in London with his
girlfriend). And the following weekend he's going
back to Scotland to see them. But the weekend
after that he is free.
FYI: David also owns a recording studio and is
a songwriter, signed to Universal.
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White dogs are often deaf.
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>> Big balls Biggins <<
Tips well and leaves a big impression
A_reliable_source writes:
"A friend was working in a hotel in the north
at Christmas time when Christopher Biggins
and Barbara Windsor were staying while
doing a nearby panto. One night Babs and
Biggins were getting royally pissed on
champagne. After their fourth bottle was
finished they requested another and my
friend delivered it to their room. Biggins
was in top form and asked her to stay
for a drink. However, he and Babs were
wearing towelling robes and, as he made
his grand gesture, his robe flew open
and his cock and balls were free for all
in the room to see. Babs got a giggling fit
and my friend made her excuses and left.
Apparently his cock was average but he
had very large balls. And they were
both excellent tippers."
FYI: IMACGMOOH. Popbet knows the winner of
and it's not who you think.
http://www.popbet.com
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For the first time since 1980, the percentage of
overweight adults in USA has not increased year-on-year
"You can only get so fat," says one physiologist.
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>> Money to burn <<
EMIs fruit-and-flower-fest
EMI's new head honcho Guy Hands is said in
the press to be horrified at the company's
excesses. For example, 200 grand a year on
"fruit and flowers" for EMI's London HQ and
20 grand a month on candles for an LA flat
used by EMI artists.
We wonder if Guy knows that while fruit,
flowers and candles are often bought in the
music industry, popbitch readers will
know it has also been a useful accounting
loophole that allowed unlimited money to
be spent legitimately purchasing drugs
and hookers. Primal Scream and Suede were
defrauded by an accountant who used this
"fruit and flowers" loophole to steal half
their money while Billy Idol supposedly
favoured "champagne and flowers".
Wonder who prefers candles?
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Fashionistas are wondering if Heather Mills, at
her soapbox thingy about veganism at Speakers Corner,
was wearing a pair of leather MBT trainers?
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>> All new Tatu <<
They're back, and pissing on Girls Aloud
Russia's finest sometime-lesbo pop princesses
are back. In the last four years Julia
Volkova has had a baby with a karate champion,
dated the pantheon of Russian male pop stars,
started singing again with Lena Katina and
is now pregnant again, while original svengali,
and tabloid paedo hate-figure, Ivan Shapovalov
has disappeared. New single, Beliy Plaschik,
is awesome, and has a startling video with
Lena ordering the firing-range execution of a
seven-month pregnant Julia.
Watch video and see Julia's boy-menagerie,
including a Russian rapper:
http://www.popbitch.com/videos
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Ziggy's ex-bandmate Dan Corsi is now an
in-house model for River Island.
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>> Reality check <<
Nick Rhodes: world's coolest pop star?
Our favourite internet exchange of the
week, from duranduran.com:
"Dear Nick Rhodes,
In 2004 you took part in a debate at the
Oxford University to discuss 'that reality
T.V is killing real music'. Do you not
think that your upcoming appearance on
the reality TV music series, The X-Factor,
sits at odds with the stance you fought
hard to defend?"
IzzY World.
"Dear Izzy,
The irony had not escaped me. Just as I lost
the vote at the Oxford debate, I also lost
the vote in the democracy that is Duran
Duran... As I don't personally choose
which shops stock our records, I have to
remain somewhat impartial about the limited
choice of opportunities to perform live
on popular television shows too."
Nick.
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Popbitch's favourite Osterley dentist: Dr Payne.
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>> Tall tales... <<
... Of little folk
The Wizard of Oz movie is 68 years old. The
surviving nine (out of 124) munchkins gathered
last week to receive a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame. So many legends exist about
these little folk's extraordinary behaviour
on set that we investigated.
Many tales were started by Judy Garland. She
once claimed a munchkin approached her on set
and said "Judy, someday I'm going to fuck you."
Her alleged reply? "If you do and I catch you..."
The rest of the myths decoded - true or false:
* Boozing
One drunken munchkin supposedly fell into a
toilet at MGM and had to be rescued. TRUE-ISH!
* Orgies
Mervyn Leroy, the film's producer, joked about
epic munchkin group sex sessions. 124 little
folk in one place... we have no other
evidence, but we still say TRUE!
* Hanging
Legend says that one heartbroken munchkin
hanged himself during filming. When Dorothy
& co. dance down the yellow brick road you
see a large object swinging in the background.
It's no munchkin, it's a bird: FALSE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r89z_-1by6U
* Dwarfs v Dog
Did they get paid less than Toto? Munchkin
Jerry Maren said they were paid $50 per week
for a 6-day working week. Toto, the dog,
got $125 per week. TRUE!
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Port Sudan airport was until quite recently called
Osama Bin Laden International, after the man who built
it. Maybe that says something about the country.
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>> Things that make you go hmmm <<
Binturong, rap maths and vagina purses
Rap represented in mathematical graphs
and charts:
http://www.jamphat.com/rap/
Lady-part bags:
http://www.artgoddess.com/purses.htm
Morrissey manager Merck's riposte
to the NME cover:
http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_071127_01
Shag trophies as clothing. Nice:
http://tinyurl.com/2xftcb
Loads of music, pop culture, tv and
film t-shirts at our pre-Christmas sale.
Free P&P, all prices slashed:
http://www.teefly.com
Cool clothes for rock'n'roll chicks!
http://www.dollydagger.co.uk
Get a Binturong. They're now legal to keep
as a pet. And so cute:
http://tinyurl.com/2kcoet
Under 24, or still pretending to be?
Free texts and phone calls:
http://www.blyk.co.uk/
>> Chart Predictions <<
New entries/High climbers Sun 2nd Dec
++ Number One
LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love
++ Top Ten
GIRLS ALOUD Call The Shots
++ Top Twenty
SOULJA BOY Crank That (Soulja Boy)
ELVIS PRESLEY An American Trilogy
++ Top Forty
EDITORS The Racing Rats
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt
SEAN KINGSTON Me Love
SUGABABES Change
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* Adam Curtis is presenting his documentaries at
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 8-9 December. He's also
going to tell you why the YBAs are our equivalent
of the Socialist Realists in the Soviet Union
under Stalin and Khruschev. And why he likes
marmots so much. Get tickets:
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Old England Football Jokes Home:
Brian Barwick sees an old lady in the street
struggling with heavy shopping.
"Can you manage love?" he asks.
"It's OK", she says, "I don't want
the job, thanks".
Still Bored:
Our favourite Xmas song - We're All Going To Die:
http://www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Loads More Bad Stuff - NewsBiscuit
Climate Change Scientists Warn ‘Loads More Bad Stuff’
In a shocking report released by the World Climate Change Investigative Committee yesterday, scientists have warned of 'some really bad stuff, more bad than the last stuff'.
The report goes on to say that if we continue to burn fossil fuels, strip forests, and sneak empty coke cans into the black bin instead of the blue bin, then the human race is headed for that total annihilation and rapid extinction that they warned about before ; only more so.
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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Good Morning Vietnam
Everyone's seen this by now. And why not ? It's great. Good soundtrack too.
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - American Gangster
Awesome stuff from Scott. Edting could have been a tad pacier though.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The mystery of Dag's hat
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rabbit" - Captain Sensible
"I've gained no wisdom. There's nothing good about
aging. You just deteriorate and die" - Woody Allen
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* "Gordon - I'm Out!"
* Skull guard caught red-handed
* Charts: Leona Lewis is still number one
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>> You've been framed? <<
Watch out Blake, Beadle's about
Blake Fielder-Civil, aka Mr Amy Winehouse,
currently banged up in Pentonville, is
telling anyone who'll listen that he's
innocent and didn't attempt to bribe the
bloke he assaulted to drop the charges, and
that it's a fit up. Well, whatever the truth
of that, one gang does have a plan afoot to
get some drugs and a hidden camera into
Pentonville to stitch him up and sell the
subsequent photos to the tabloids.
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Chechnya's Presidential wingnut, Ramzan Kadyrov, has
given an order to limit the amount of celebration
gunfire at weddings. "Two or three shots are enough,
and not from large-calibre machine guns", he says.
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>> Chelsy boots Harry <<
Prince's lady back on the market
Despite tabloid reports that Chelsy and Harry
are back together, that might not be the
whole story. We're hearing the bubbly blonde
has her eye on a tall, dark and handsome
Leeds-dweller.Well, you do need something to
keep you warm in your first Yorkshire winter.
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Ian Brown is often seen in the village cake shop in
Lymm, Cheshire. He buys cream doughnuts for his
children and an iced finger for himself.
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>> Art wank <<
Guard caught red-handed
When Damien Hirst's diamond skull was exhibited
at White Cube earlier this year, as well as a
guard on duty 24/7, it had a secret safe hidden
underneath, into which the fifty million pound
skull would drop at the end of the day. On one
occasion, after the gallery had closed, the
guard turned round and saw the skull had
vanished! New to the job and unaware of the
existence of the safe, the guard pressed
the alarm and called for help. All was well,
the skull was in its safe, and the guard was
suitably embarrassed. Although not as
embarrassed as he was later, when gallery staff
had checked the cctv to see what had happened,
and saw that the guard had missed what had
gone on because he was standing in the corner
of the room having a crafty wank.
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The Spice Girls' comeback single looks set to be the
lowest-selling Children In Need Record.
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>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
A crew member on a very posh Mediterranean
yacht tells us he stumbled upon which
world statesman snogging the yacht captain's
wife on deck, while his spouse was asleep
in their cabin?
Which Cabinet member's son was snapped after
a university party with a couple of
Anderton-alikes in bed and several lines on
the table nearby? The student who took the
photos still has them.
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The latest McCann swingers rumour doing the rounds
is that Robert Murat is the King of The Swingers
in Portugal, and is therefore responsible for
snatching Maddie's disappearance.
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>> Safety first <<
Airport security: not all that
A flight attendant tells us about a recent flight
out of Johannesburg. The attendants were doing
the usual cross-checking, pre-flight routine
when the senior steward realised that upstairs
on the jumbo no-one was responding.
Confused, and mildly concerned that something
bad could have happened, like a flight attendant
falling ill, or a hijack, he ran up the stairs
to investigate, but just found a scene of calm.
"What's going on, and why didn't you answer me?"
he asked the flight attendant. "Well", she
answered. "My sister is the flight attendant.
She wasn't feeling well this morning so we
thought if I wore her uniform and came along for
the trip no-one would notice."
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Sky News have a show next Monday about otters being
killed by people trying to catch crayfish. (They
are being enouraged by TV chefs, apparently).
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>> Safari so goody <<
Jackiey talks her way to the Gambia
Jade Goody's mum, Jackiey Budden, was on a
flight to the Gambia recently. The poor chap
who found himself sitting next to her was
treated to a six-hour non stop monologue about
her life, including a 30 minute slot just on
how she spells her name. There was no movie
on the plane. Not even headphones.
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Detroit band The Romantics are suing Activision over
a version of their song What I Like About You that
appears on the game Guitar Hero Encore: Hits of the 80s.
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>> Unfair trade <<
Farmer tells TV chef to hop it
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall isn't the most
popular man in Dorset. He recently went
to Axminster farming suppliers Mole
Avon, picked up a basketload of goods and
walked to the front of the queue. A
farmer who had been patiently queuing
shouted out "Hey! What are you doing? Get
back!" Hugh replied "Don't you know who
I am?" When the farmer suggested that he
didn't much care, Hugh abandoned his basket
and walked out.
FYI: The main gripe about Hugh in the
village currently is that the scones he sells,
costing one pound each, are not made by him or
on his farm, "but in Bridport".
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>> Bleeding love <<
Lynne Franks meets Mother Earth
Legend has it that on one balmy summer's night
in Majorca Lynne Franks decided to lie in
a ditch by the side of a road casually
menstruating. She was giving something back
to Mother Earth.
FYI Get Rodney Marsh or John Burton Race out.
Want a free 25 quid bet?
http://www.popbet.com
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The girl in the Wonderbra take-off of the Cadbury's
In The Air Tonight advert is Bad Ass Strippa
flop Jentina.
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>> "Gordon - I'm Out!" <<
Dragon tells MPs to cough up
When Dragon's Den judge Duncan Bannatyne's
company took over the Living Well gym in
Westminster he discovered that MP members
(including Estelle Morris, Gordon Brown and
Paul Boateng) were paying a hugely reduced
rate compared to the 85 pounds per month that
all the regular members were paying. Bannatyne
was not impressed, raging "If Mr Brown wants
to be a member of THIS gym, he can pay the
same as everyone else".
Gordon Brown no longer uses that gymnasium,
but Anne Widdecombe does.
FYI: A fellow gym-goer tells us that Gordon Brown is
"incredibly pale and doughy" and that he's "not at
all keen on flashing" his penis in the changing rooms.
However he's seen it briefly and it was "unmemorable".
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Free holiday, all expenses paid, round Europe with
five mates? If only...
http://tinyurl.com/2yyt9f
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>> Things that make you go hmmm <<
Pheromone, football heads, Sesame Street
Send someone a message in which McCain potatoes
sing a song. It's silly, made us laugh, and our
mums loved it. (And we rather stupidly gave
you the wrong link last week):
http://www.potatoparade.co.uk
Thinking of donating marrow? Make sure it's the
right kind of marrow for the Anthony Nolan Trust:
http://www.ilovemarrow.com
Would you like to go to the most outrageous
party in London?
http://www.aphrodisiacslondon.com
Original Sesame Street series are now on DVD.
And have a "parental advisory" sticker - not
suitable for children. We disagree:
http://www.popbitch.com/videos
10% off two or more t-shirt. Promo code
"popbitch" at the checkout.
http://www.teemarto.com.
Brilliant football game to waste your day playing:
http://chickendinner.co.uk/FOOTBALLGAME/BOBBLEHEADS/
Where Mick Hucknall gets his pulling power?
http://www.pheromonereviewsite.com
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Altec Lansing's Orbit is the only portable speaker
you are ever going to win. And you can win a NYE
trip to Berlin by dancing like a God:
http://yougroove.eu/yougroove/contest.php
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>> Chart Predictions <<
New entries/High climbers Sun 25th Nov
Spice Girls blunder but Leona just keeps
bleeding. Will she ever stop bleeding?
We're starting to prefer Jamie Scott &
The Town's cover:
http://www.popbitch.com/videos
++ Number One
LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love
++ Top Ten
ELVIS PRESLEY Always On My Mind
SHAYNE WARD Breathless
SPICE GIRLS Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)
++ Top Forty
DIZZEE RASCAL Flex
GALLOWS Staring At Rude Bois
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Old Jokes Home:
I asked my girlfriend to tell me something that would
make me happy and sad at the same time.
She said I've got a bigger dick than my dad.
Still Bored:
The best (and hardest) sea otter quiz in the world:
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/seaotters-q.htm
Monday, November 19, 2007
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - 21 Grams
Great (but depressing) hyperlink cinema drama thing from the guy who gave us Babel.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Let Him Have It
Decent British true story film about a misunderstanding. Go track it down.
Late Popbitch
"My daughter had a birthday - I spent weeks
planning it - and they did an article saying I
killed the neighbour's dog" - Heather Mills
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* Whatever happened to S Club Juniors
* Twizzle that turkey
* Charts: Leona Lewis still number one
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>> Lynne Franks: the "inside" story <<
I'm a Celebrity, get it out of here
Lynne Franks is playing the earth mother on
I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here but her
legendary PR company was a terrifying place to
work in the 80s and early 90s. There was
compulsory African dancing and Buddhist chanting.
A favourite story among her staff was when
she phoned her PA in a panic early one morning
asking for an emergency appointment at her local
clinic, "for a retrieval". Her PA was bemused
but the story filtered out. Lynne had been having
sex with Seal the night before and the condom had
got lost "inside" somewhere.
FYI: Why not profit from Rodney Marsh's misogyny?
9/4 Marsh first to go.
http://www.popbet.com
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Gordon Brown was in Soho bar The Player last Saturday,
sipping Sauvignon Blanc, surrounded by minders.
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>> Big Questions <<
What people are asking this week
Which Brit DJ/dance producer went on a
prestigious gig to Russia but woke up in his
hotel bed covered in blood? At his club appearance
the local mafia were horrified at his request
for mixers to go with his vodka so he embarked
on a eight-hour drinking binge with them
culminating in the DJ being carried back to his
hotel. His hosts were similarly trashed so
didn't notice they'd bashed his head on the
door to his room and cut his ear open.
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Guests arriving at the state banquet for Saudi King
Abdullah were welcomed by a military band playing
tunes from Hello Dolly.
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>> Our hero <<
Enrique throws himself into his work
Enrique Iglesias has been over here in UK
doing concerts at Wembley and hitting the
London clubs. Sadly nothing of much note
happened which could beat our favourite ever
story of a Enrique Iglesias gig. Enrique was
doing a concert in Rome and his people arranged
for some models and pretty girls to be stationed
in front of the left-hand side of the stage, so he
could dive in for some great photo and TV shots.
The crew reminded him when he went on, "left side,
Enrique". He thought they meant stage left.
So when Iglesias dived off the stage for his photo
opp, he wasn't where he thought he'd be. Instead,
he landed right in the disabled fans area.
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David Beckham made some flight attendants very happy
on a recent BA flight when he stripped down to his
underwear in first class and changed into his pyjamas.
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>> Tawdry telly <<
ITV's morning glory
While it is obviously amusing to see Jeremy
Kyle getting it in the neck from the tabloids,
it's good to remember he's not the only person
responsible for his "bear-baiting" TV show.
One TV executive told us how surprised they've
been to see ITV claim to be shocked that violence
should break out on the Kyle show, as at a
commissioning meeting, TV production companies
were told they were looking for new shows
to fill the "Chavs Fighting" morning slot.
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Lilly Allen is getting her own BBC Three show. What
she doesn't know, is that for internal political
reasons, she might have to record it in Scotland.
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>> Pop mini-me's grow up <<
Whatever happened to S Club Juniors?
S Club 8 burst on to the pop scene in 2001
to a general sense of indifference. They
quickly went away. So where are they now?
Hannah went back to school, Jay wants to go
into business after his A Levels, Rochelle
is "modelling", Stacey is learning to play
the guitar, Calvin is on a US TV show, Frankie
recently received her bronze swimming
certificate and Aaron is a dancer.
And Daisy? She's a Score Angel, one of the
News of The World's barely dressed cheerleaders.
So how does the paper, the scourge of Britain's
paedophiles, introduce this 17 year-old "32C
blonde beauty"? "At 12-years-old she was the
sweetest thing on the pop scene... but now
she's set to be the hottest talent on
England's football pitches."
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Countdown to Midnight. This New Year's Eve join Take
That and Sugababes live at The O2. O2 customers have
a chance to get priority tickets here:
http://tinyurl.com/ypy9ky
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>> She's bootiful! <<
The sexual arousal of Turkeys
It's really not a good time of year for Turkeys.
Tens of thousands are being culled in a bird flu
scare. And then there's Christmas. But don't
spare too much sympathy. They're icky little
buggers. Researchers at Penn State University
have been investigating the sexual arousal of
male turkeys. They were impressed to see that
the birds attempted to mate with look-a-like
dummies. Piece by piece they removed parts of
the dummy and found that the males were still
highly aroused when presented with no more than
a head on a stick. However it doesn't work in
reverse. The turkeys failed to get the horn
for a turkey with no head. (We've yet to find
out if this is true of Steve Coogan...)
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Rhydian, the one from X Factor who looks like an
android, likes to spend weekday evenings in the
Esporta gym, Swiss Cottage.
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>> Plumbing the depths <<
Anthony Costa strikes out alone
Anthony Costa, the one who looked like a plumber
in Blue, has announced his first solo tour
of the UK next year. It starts on February 16,
at The Brindley, in Runcorn and finishes on
March 26, 2008 in Barrow in Furness, England.
From Runcorn to Barrow-in-Furness. One of the
saddest sentences in pop.
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Popbitch's favourite London barrister:
Dr Julian Facebook.
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>> Charity begins in LA <<
BBC loses out to California sunshine
BBC staff are rather sad this year about
Children In Need, a moment of warmth and
levity in their otherwise besieged world.
Their big celebrity pop guests of the year,
the Spice Girls, have decided to film their
performances in LA. (Even though they
managed to do their supermarket
adverts here). People are grumbling
that "even Madonna managed to drag her arse
down to Television Centre to perform two
years ago".
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>> Things that make you go hmmm <<
Potatoes, baby taser, pallas cats
Northern urinal slide:
http://www.comeonboro.com/football_funnies/180031.php
Send someone a message in which McCain potatoes
sing a song. It's silly and made us laugh
(and our mums loved it)
http://recipes.chef2chef.net/recipe-archive/31/170498.shtml
Baby's First Taser - is it a cute pink seal or
is it a stun-gun?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/05/pink_baby_seal_a_tazer.html
Royal Males, Golf Sales & Burnside. All
with free UK p&p:
http://www.teefly.com
Recently unbanned pet, under the Dangerous
Animals Act. Get a pallas cat:
http://www.popbitch.com/videos
Madonna and Me: Misadventures of a would-be
pop star: For 20 years singer/songwriter
Nikki Racklin sat breathlessly expecting
stardom to come calling. Instead it happened to
an intriguingly-named Italian-American singer
http://www.lulu.com/content/515958
>> Chart Predictions <<
New entries/High climbers Sun 19th Nov
++ Number One
LEONA LEWIS Bleeding Love
++ Top Ten
KYLIE MINOGUE 2 Hearts
ELVIS PRESLEY You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
++ Top Twenty
RUNRIG FT TARTAN ARMY Loch Lomond
BLOC PARTY Flux
LAHAYNA In The City
++ Top Forty
SPICE GIRLS Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)
T2 FT JODIE AYSHA Heartbroken
AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black
>> End Bit <<
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Old Jokes Home:
Batman came up to me and he hit me over the head
with a vase and he went T'PAU!
I said "Don't you mean KAPOW?"
"No", said Batman, I've got china in my hand.
Still Bored:
End world hunger, and find a new
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Saturday, November 10, 2007
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Manchurian Candidate
Pretty good stuff, if a little long. Streep continues to steal scenes.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Empire Strikes Back
Awesome. I think I like the 1997 remix better. I'm not sure.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Popbitch - "Crouching tiger, leaping lemur"
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