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Gavin & Stacey

How lovely it is to be on the seafront in Barry Island on a bright and blustery day enjoying proper Welsh weather – clouds on the horizon, torrential rain just minutes away – looking out over the beach on which Ruth Jones and James Corden are cavorting ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ruth Jones,  Rob Brydon,  BBC,  Steve Carell,  Seth Rogen

Aaron Cohen - the slave hunter

Aaron Cohen swapped a rock and roll lifestyle for human rights. Photograph: Barry J Holmes I don't know where to even start with Aaron Cohen. With his day job, springing imprisoned girls out of brothels? With his past life as a heroin ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, The Guardian Music,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jane's Addiction (musician),  Perry Farrell,  Steven Spielberg,  Oliver Stone,  Demi Moore

Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it Is Lived by Roger Lewis | Book review

Roger Lewis: ‘Self-knowledge seeps like a wound.’ Roger Lewis is a bad-tempered, embittered, foul-mouthed, cantankerous old fart. And I mean that as a compliment. Most people, certainly most people in the public eye, are so bland in their judgments, ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Harold Pinter,  Anthony Burgess,  Clive James

Beirut is back … and it's beautiful

A whole new road system has been built from Beirut airport to the city centre since the last time I visited. What's more, there are new, exciting roadside accessories. "Oh my God!" says my friend Anna. "What's that?" "It's a traffic light," I say ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hezbollah,  Dunkin' Donuts, LLC,  New York Times Company,  Virgin Megastore,  Elizabeth Taylor

Welcome to Martin Parr's world

Martin Parr's collection of plates commemorating the 1984-85 miners' strike. Photograph: Colin Davison On the wall of is a quote from Martin Parr: "I have a very strong collecting gene," it states. You can say that again. Two years ago, I went with ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Saddam Hussein,  Osama bin Laden,  Facebook Inc.,  Mercedes-Benz

Self help books and positive thinking boom

Seventy-three years after it came out, and 54 years after its author died, How to Win Friends and Influence People, a motivational guide written by an unemployed salesman-turned-actor called Dale Carnegie, is back in the bestseller charts: ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Dale Carnegie,  Ellen DeGeneres,  Alain de Botton,  Wayne Dyer,  Spencer Johnson

Hurrah for the Windsors' wedding

So, there it was. Like the first cuckoo of spring. Evidence that the economy really might just be on the turn. For in the same week of news of Wall Street, the sequel, started filming with Michael Douglas reprising his role as Gordon "Greed is Good" ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Comment Is Free,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,  Michael Douglas,  Louis XIV (musician),  David Cameron

Just Williamson

Matthew Williamson in his cottage in Hampstead. Photograph: Dean Chalkley It's a bit like entering into a magical fairy kingdom, stepping into Matthew Williamson's home. It's a proper chocolate box cottage in London's most villagey village, the ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, The Observer,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Matthew Williamson,  Central Saint Martins (designer),  Kate Moss,  Sienna Miller,  Helena Christensen

Gender has no place on the sporting agenda

Hands up. Who's still at work? I don't mean right now; it's Sunday morning, isn't it, unless you're reading this on the web on Wednesday, in which case you probably actually are at work. Who among you is still economically active? Who hasn't taken half ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Comment Is Free,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Mark Lawson,  Simon Cowell,  Esther Rantzen,  Malcolm Gladwell,  BBC

Bunny Tales | Book Review

Bunny Tales is subtitled "Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion", but it could have been called "Too Much Information". Because while there's a lot of detail in here which is really not terribly surprising – that Hugh Hefner, aged 78 when the book ...

From CAROLE CADWALLADR, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hugh Hefner

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