Tara Palmer Tomkinson: These Boots (Were Made For Walking)

SEVERAL NON-SINGING CELEBS agreed to do BBC TV's Fame Academy, an X-Factor or American Idol style show where wannabe pop stars train and develop. And get kicked out one by one. Tara Palmer Tomkinson is a very posh British "it girl" in the Paris Hilton mould, who counts Prince Charles as a family friend. In the true "do anything" attitude of public school tradition, she here gives Nancy Sinatra's classic a good going-at:~

Tara Palmer Tomkinson Poppadum Flavour Crisps Ad

TARA PALMER TOMKINSON is the only socialite I really like. Here's her Walker's Crisps ad featuring retired footballer Gary Linneker for Poppadum flavour snacks (just shows how much Indian culture has got under the British skin!)

Elizabeth R: 1992 documentary on HM Queen Elizabeth II

This is the entire close-up documentary about HM the Queen as shown on BBC TV back in 1992

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Kate Middleton & Chelsy Davy: Paparazzi Queens

Kate Middleton is middle-middleclass girlfriend to Prince William who is second in line to the British throne. South African born upper-middleclass heiress Chelsy Davy is dating Prince Harry who is third in line...

Kylie Minogue Receives Her OBE At Buckingham Palace

An OBE (Order of the British Empire) is an honour bestowed on commoners for achievements in the field of their chosen careers...

Helen Mirren plays "The Queen"

I PARTICULARLY WANTED TO SEE this film when it came out a couple of years ago. But seasons are so very short that this movie, grand enough to attract huge display stacks at the local supermarket on DVD with a free box of chocolates, had been pulled from all our local multiscreens in less than a month. Which is far too short a time for my brain to process information!

Having seen these clips I'd say it falls into the typically annoying film-maker's traps of caricaturing both characters and situation. I mean, as if we're meant to believe the New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was interested in PR more than anything else. Of coure he was very much in tune with image, but I think even he had mightier and meatier concerns in his role as PM.

I love the telling set design and contrasts between Her Majesty's stateliness and the Blairs' New Labour New Britain Argos catalogue version of number 11 Downing Street (where they actually lived, though keeping the formal address of number 10. Number 10's private apartments were too pokey for a young family with small kids so they stayed in the Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister's) official quarters next door.

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Helen Mirren always said she was not interested in "impersonating" Elizabeth II, rather to capture her spirit on film, which is what most reviewers consider she achieved remarkably well.

Here's the actual Broadcast to the British People as shown in 2/2 above...

Audrey Hepburn sings Moon River

Here's the original clip from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn did have a good singing voice, and here it is. Why on earth she was dubbed in My Fair Lady I shall never understand...

Specials AKA: Free Nelson Mandela

It was Mandela's 90th birthday last week and this is the tune that reminds me most of him...

Tiesto: DJ as god

Barbra Streisand sings "love theme from A Star is Born" Evergreen IN FRENCH ~ haha!!

Amy Winehouse "Racism" Video

THIS WAS ALL OVER THE PAPERS THIS WEEK... Amy Winehouse expresses her supposed "racist" sentiments in song. + Amy stupefied ++ hubby Blake FC sounding off about drugs. See for yourself:

Madonna, Britney, Christina: Like a Virgin

This is from the 2003 American Music awards. I was so badly addicted to heroin at this time that nothing like this could possibly have invaded my consciousnesss... Saw this for the first time today!

Leona Lewis on Tyra Banks' talkshow

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OCD: Di Caprio in Scorsese's The Aviator

THE AVIATOR. A fantastic movie about the most famous true life characters of its time...

Starring Leonardo di Caprio as the "eccentric" recluse, Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's 2004 film The Aviator. Dating and hobnobbing with many of Hollywood's most famous leading ladies of the classic era, Hughes was one of the richest and most powerful Americans of his day. Life was blitzed and blighted however by a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) severe enough to keep the man hidden away as a chronic recluse for many, many years... Cate Blanchett co-stars as Katherine Hepburn, the one true love of Hughes's life.

The film also features Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner, Gwen Stefani as Rita Hayworth and Kelli Garner as Faith Domergue, the ice-cream-eating postwar starlet and Hughes's attempted replacement for the irreplaceable Katherine Hepburn...



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Madonna: Elle Shoot

Still looks airbrushed to death on the telly... I think that's what they call wash-out lighting. This purloined from M-filer.

Right Said Fred: I'm Too Sexy ~ UK Daz TV Commercial...

I got talking to my friend Mary Crystalchick from New Jersey about her taste in music which included Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy I said I liked the timestretched uppydowny beats... told her it was on a commercial.. she said ~::~ what? you mean a commercial for DAZ? AND SO IT IS..!

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Winehouse Smoking Crack ~ Sun newspaper 22:1:08...

Amy Winehouse is all over today's Sun newspaper: caught smoking crack on top of having snorted lines of ecstasy/cocaine and having popped 6 Valium "to bring me down" (cushion the jagged after-effects of such a powerful stimulant cocktail)... This is the Sun newspaper's official footage (sound is cut to delete voice of the undercover reporter)... See here the *EXCLUSIVE* international *SCANDAL* for yourself...

Hillary vs Obama

Queen Noor of Jordan: Life in Pictures

She was King Hussein's fourth and last wife... American-born but half-Arab by blood, she became queen when they married in 1978, she was widowed when he died of nonhodgkins lymphoma in 1999...

Queen Noor of Jordan pleas for Peace in Iraq

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(Britain's) Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII)

Liz Does A Nigella

Liz is my blogger friend from Wales: Nigella = Nigella Lawson, svelte TV chef and daughter of Britain's most famous Thatcherite Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) ...

Такого как Путин Takogo kak Putin "You Must Be Like Putin"

This came out as a single, by a mysterious Russian girl group, just before Russia's last elections. The words tell how Putin is the ideal husband, lover and military leader... Vladmir Putin the Ideal Man! It has to be said: Putin is the highest-octane leader we have in the world today. Or to put it another way; the world's most charismatic dictator!