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Flash photography: the Heat portraits

Would you pose as a flasher? Share a bowl of spaghetti with a dog? Some of your favourite stars would – if Heat magazine asked them to. Launched in 1999 just as reality TV took off and the idea of fame became purely relative, the magazine has captured ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: David Walliams,  Spice Girls,  Susan Boyle

How Cheryl became X Factor darling

Everyone's got their favourite X Factor contestant, but this week the public chose the real winner. After performing on the results show last Sunday, Cheryl Cole's solo debut, "Fight for This Love", became the fastest-selling single of the year, with 13 ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ashley Cole,  Girls Aloud,  Cheryl Cole,  BBC,  David Beckham

Chalcot Crescent by Fay Weldon | Book review

Fay Weldon's new novel starts with an explanation. This story, she says, imagines what would have happened if her mother hadn't miscarried two years after her birth and Fay had had a little sister. It's an interesting idea but one that is only ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Fay Weldon

This much I know

Yoko Ono: 'If I'd died 10 years ago I would have died dumb". Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty When I think of Japan I think of food. I miss the Japanese spirit, the culture and civilisation that we had and lost. I know that most parents don't like ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Yoko Ono

Catwalk row over size 14 models

Models on the catwalk during the Mark Fast fashion show, London, Sept 19, 2009. Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images A designer's decision to use size 12 and 14 models at London Fashion Week yesterday caused a behind-the-scenes row that ended in his ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Elle Magazine,  Sarah Brown,  Roland Mouret

Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon

Maigret fans be warned: this is a far cry from Simenon's cosy French detective series. Though Commissaire Maigret is the Belgian writer's most famous creation, Simenon also wrote many romans dur, as he called them; bleak stories of human weakness and ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Sep 2009

Classics corner: Raffles by EW Hornung

Stealing from the rich to give to the comfortably well off has a duff ring to it, but the concept has proved surprisingly enduring. The gentleman thief is a literary favourite, and one of the first and best is cricketer and cracksman Arthur J Raffles, ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Arthur Conan Doyle

Fashion row over 'size zero' models

Leading designers have defended themselves against accusations that they force excessively skinny models on to the pages of fashion magazines by supplying clothes for photoshoots that are too small for normal women. The claims, made by Vogue's editor, ...

From ALICE FISHER, CAROLINE DAVIES, The Observer,  13 Jun 2009
Related Topics: John Galliano,  Karl Lagerfeld,  Paul Smith,  Vivienne Westwood,  Calvin Klein

Classics corner: The Riddle of the Sands

When Charles Carruthers accepts an invitation for a yachting and duck-shooting trip to the Frisian Islands from Arthur Davies, an old chum from his Oxford days, he has no idea their holiday will become a daredevil investigation into a German plot to ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Ken Follett

How fancy dress became the fashion

There was Lily Allen as Queen Victoria – in a fitted black top, long skirt and fur-trimmed cloak; Paris Hilton as Alice in Wonderland, pouting with her hands on her hips; and Jaime Winstone, a 1980s punk in heavy boots, a union flag top and dyed red ...

From ALICE FISHER, Guardian Unlimited,  16 May 2009
Related Topics: Lily Allen,  Heidi Klum,  Paris Hilton,  Facebook Inc.

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