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DVD Review: Wonder Woman (2009)
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For at least the last twenty years, Warner Bros and DC Comics have struggled in vain to launch a live action feature for the female member of DC's holy trinity. While Superman and Batman have both come, gone, and returned, Wonder Woman has yet to find her way to the silver screen. Warner Bros can take their time. ... |
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Mario Testino: 'it's not all glamour'
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 Mario Testino has charmed Diana, kicked Madonna and insulted George Clooney all part of a day's work for the world's most in-demand celebrity photographer. Recently he left the glitz behind to help earthquake victims in his Peruvian hometown. 'But don't get me wrong,' he says, 'I'm no saint'. As Mario Testino moves ... |
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Hacking Satellite Feeds For Fun
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By tapping in to one feed around the time of the death of Princess Diana, Laurie said he was able to view live video set up by a group of television journalists, intended for the station that employed them. Some of the time, he would catch their official broadcasts as they were giving them, but he was also be able to watch ... |
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How Jade Goody became the new Princess Diana
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 The victimhood and media whoring of Jade Goody and the People’s Princess have much in common, says Coline Covington. Jade Goody and Princess Diana have much in common, not least the psychological roots of their stratospheric popularity. Like Jade, Diana was portrayed as a victim of the press, right up to the ... |
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Manufacturing the myth of monarchy
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A statue of the Queen Mother is the royal family's way of passing itself off as charming heritage, rather than pointless privilege. When members of the royal family were discussing a memorial to the Queen mother, who died in 2002, I wonder if anyone suggested a giant bronze sculpture of an ATM. After all, the Windsor ... |
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Dorchester veteran mixes with the best
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 THE DORCHESTER'S veteran bar manager Giuliano Morandin has been named one of the world's best. Mr Morandin, 55, has been mixing cocktails for the rich and famous at the Mayfair hotel for more than 30 years. This week the Italian-born maestro was named by Travel and Leisure as Britain's finest. The magazine ... |
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Exhibit illustrates funeral’s place in American history
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 A large crowd of people quietly filed through the large trailer’s doors on Wednesday afternoon on their way to a viewing. The visitors were lining up for “Reflections: The American Funeral,” a traveling exhibit now stationed at Carl Sandburg College. The exhibit is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Reflections” aims to ... |
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Clothes Make the Woman
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David Sassoon has become a legend for dressing the rich, the aristocratic, the glamorous, and, especially, the royals. He’s just celebrated 50 years in the fashion business, and he’s now published a lavish book called The Glamour of Bellville Sassoon. It’s part autobiography and part gorgeous coffee-table spread, ... |
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Carla Bruni 'sees herself as successor to Princess Diana'
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 Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has paid a tribute to Princess Diana and has implied she views herself as a natural successor to the "Queen of Hearts" in her work helping aid victims. "Diana was incredible,' said France's First Lady, recalling the late princess's work with Aids victims. "She touched and kissed those who were infected. ... |
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Diana letters to stay secret
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Private letters between Princess Diana and the government are to be kept secret, the Information Commissioner has ruled. A request for them to be made public was rejected on the basis that they were "of a personal nature". The Royal family is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, unless it is deemed to be in the ... |
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Satellite-hacking boffin sees the unseeable - Lady Di gossip plucked from sky
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White-hat hacker Adam Laurie knows better than to think email, video-on-demand, and other content from Sky Broadcasting and other satellite TV providers is a private matter between him and the company. That's because he's spent the past decade monitoring satellite feeds and the vast amount of private information ... |
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Dollhouse artistry - Local woman creates fashions, hairstyles for dolls
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 At the Dunnellon Public Library, a collection of 17 crocheted and intricately beaded doll dresses is attracting a lot of attention. The dolls wearing the dresses are fashion dolls with period hairstyles, which owner Adele Williams said she did herself, even putting curlers in the dolls’ hair to get just the right look. Some of the dolls ... |
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