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* Amy Winehouse - bad!
* Publicist fantasist is OK!
* Charts: Dizzie Rascal is number one
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       >> Do blue steel, Ben <<
     Hollywood A-lister likes his tea at 6

   Ben Stiller is Hollywood A-list. And he likes
   to play the part. On a recent movie he
   stipulated that he had to be off set, away from
   filming  and back home in Malibu by 6pm every
   night. Which seems reasonable. One night
   things went badly wrong and he didn't make it
   back until five minutes past six. A heated
   phone call to the production unit followed. And
   rightly so. Tsk, does nobody respect
   celebrities any more?


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John Hannah had his photo taken by a tout outside
the Radiohead gig at Victoria Park last week. He told
everyone he was pleased he had a snap of James Nesbitt.
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       >> Baa! <<
       Amy Winehouse: bad

   Crowd behaviour is a weird thing. Last year
   Amy Winehouse could do no wrong. Turn up
   late and completely battered at a gig and
   the world thought she was amazing. Mumbling
   through the lyrics to Back to Black (is that
   because she doesn't like singing it since
   she got back with and married Blake?) was
   a sign of her edgy, electric stage presence.

   Cut to Glastonbury 2008. The world has decided
   that Amy's drug schtick is no longer cool. So
   her performance was collectively agreed to be
   rubbish. Less sheep-like observers who'd
   seen her during both phases thought she it
   was the same as it ever was.



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A gay wine goes on sale this month. Tendre Bulle
Gay Vin (Tender Bubbles Gay Wine) is,
of course, a sparkling rose.
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     >> Big Questions <<
     What people are asking this week

   Which rock star's mother-in-law said about
   him this week? "He looks like a rat but he's
   a good father to the kids... But he's a
   miserable, rat-faced man."

   Which aging Hollywood superstar likes playing
   golf because the empty fairways give him
   a chance to take cocaine in peace?


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The publishing world is buzzing with the story
that Coolio has sold a cookbook to an American
publishing house called Cookin' with Coolio.
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       >> It's OK! to lie <<
       PR pariah lands on feet

   In 2006 Rob Shuter used to be publicist to Paris
   Hilton. Until he was hauled before a court in
   California to explain why a completely made up story
   about a former love-rival attacking his boss made
   the papers, along with quotes from three people.
   Who all turned up to be Shuter. The woman in
   question sued Paris for $10m. It was “amicably
   resolved” before trial. Shuter went on to rep
   Jessica Simpson, and told magazines she was
   “head over heels in love” with John Mayer.
   Only for Simpson to say on TV “I’m actually
   not dating John Mayer”, and fire Shuter.

   Talent like that seldom goes unrewarded and last
   week it was announced that Mr Shuter has a new
   job – Executive Editor of Richard Desmond’s US
   edition of OK! Magazine, which “brings you
   the truth and the inside scoop about celebrities.”


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       >> Burrito Madness <<
      Eat at the Roach Coach

   Staff at Gordon Ramsey's new LA restaurant,
   The London, like to get their lunch from the
   $2 burrito van that parks nearby. The one that
   locals have labelled "The Roach Coach".


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City Lit brochure: page 42, course "Professional
Preparation for theatre, film and TV".
Tutor: Beverley Hills.
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       >> Buns & Guns <<
       Get a bombin' good burger in Beirut

   There's a new burger joint in Beirut, Buns and
   Guns. Its logo is a burger and a gun, and the
   sandwiches are named after weapons and
   explosives. Owner Ali Hammoud says "It's just
   an idea I had, nothing more, nothing less I
   could have put toys in place of the sandbags
   and teddy bears instead of guns". The chefs
   wear fatigues and serve the food in camouflaged
   paper. And the background music? The sound
   of explosions and gunfire. 


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Members of Chumbawamba have written in and are
starring in a musical, "Where's Vietnam?" It's
about Leeds hippies in the 1960s.
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       >> Footballer can read, shock! <<
       Notts County star startles the world

   It's that time of year when we see British
   footballers pictured in the tabloids,
   frolicking on a beach with their WAGs.
   But that's not true for all of them.
   Neil McKenzie of Notts County has instead
   been on TV word game Countdown. And he
   won after successfully making out the
   Countdown Conundrum, "clambered".
  

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Chesney Hawkes seen in Exeter services eating a
M&S chicken and bacon sandwich.
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       >> Westminster v Camden <<
      Council gets a pat on the back       

Doghouse Dave writes:
   "I read your report on outside drinking in
   Westminster. Whilst Westminster have no policy on
   outside drinking Camden have envoked the ADZ
   (Alcohol Disorder Zone) legislation (designed to
   remove drunks and derelicts from the streets) to
   clear the streets of normal drinkers. We are in
   the strange situation where my bar Bradleys is
   on the Westminster side of Hanway Street but
   the opposite side of the street (where most of
   our customers choose to stand) is Camden. There
   you can be fined and have your alcohol
   confiscated but in Westminster you are free
   to drink on the street. All very confusing.

   "In conversations with the very helpful man at
   Westminster Licensing it would appear that most
   notices that appear on pubs in Soho banning
   outside drinking, saying it's Westminster's
   fault, are put there by the licensees to prevent
   noise complaints from neighbours that could be
   even more damaging to their businesses. For once
   I feel that Westminster should be given a pat on
   the back for their liberal attitude, and a
   big boo to Camden."


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It's lucky the music industry is in such rude
health: Sony BMG are moving into the swanky
Roof Garden/Barkers building in posh Kensington.
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       >> Things that make you go hmm <<
       petition, otter rampage, Dalek porn

   Popbitch's favourite Australian reproductive
   health reasearcher... Ms Cadence Minge:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news22681.html

   Text Nelson Mandela a happy birthday greeting on 84707:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcgNfyQIHw8

   Irish voters have started a petition to get 10 Downing
   St to reprimand Iris Robinson MP for her homophobic
   comments. Sign here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Robinson-Gay/


   Two otters in California hang out at Mario & John’s
   Tavern and an auto parts store:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080630/NEWS/451682394/0/LIFESTYLE

   Dalek porn:
http://www.terazfilms.co.uk/xploited-cinema/trailer-ABD.html


   >> Chart Predictions <<
   New entries/High climbers Sun 6th July

++ Number One
DIZZIE RASCAL Dance Wiv Me


++ Top Twenty
MGMT Electric Feel

++ Top Forty
Jay-Z 99 Problems


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Old Jokes Home:
An amnesiac walked into a bar.
He said, "Do I come here often?"

Still Bored:
Ban this sick stunt! Male journalist caught
holding teenage boy's legs wide apart in
sordid office snap. Someone call paedo crusader
Rebekah Wade!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1361751.ece