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How I get dressed: Paloma Faith - on style icons, fancy dress - and her enviable waist-to-hip ratio

All the women in my family are very glamorous, in leopard print and furs – like Elizabeth Taylors without the surgery. They were young in the 60s, so they still feel the liberation of fashion. My mum, who burned her bra, thinks it's hilarious that I ...

From EVA WISEMAN, The Guardian Music,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Charlie Chaplin,  Marilyn Monroe,  Reebok,  Patrick Cox,  Manish Arora

What I know about men | Catherine Millet 60, writer, in a relationship

Few male authors, argues Catherine Millet, write about sex as explicitly as she does. Photograph: Suki Dhanda The older I get, the younger I like my men. Young men have an energy that middle-aged ones don't. I live in artistic and intellectual circles, ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Rock Hudson,  Anthony Perkins,  BMW

Booze, bad behaviour and Brighton – it's carnage but I love it

Oh, to be a student again, pissed on freedom and curdled shots. This week, the Sun reports, "a plague of drunken youngsters", organised by events company Carnage UK, descended on Brighton: hospitality management students, forearms streaky with ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Louis Vuitton

Do you find the possibility of death invigorating?

Death is not a possibility, but a certainty, and the only sense in which that's invigorating is that it tells me to hurry up because time is short. Unfortunately, by the time death looms, it's too late to hurry. All vigour has gone. Dicing with death ...

From OBSERVER PANEL, EVA WISEMAN, MARY WARNOCK, REV DONALD MACLEOD, KAROL SIKORA, Comment Is Free,  31 Oct 2009

Russell's of Broadway | Hotel review

It's in places like this, Broadway, in the Cotswolds, that I most feel like I'm in a foreign country – it's England to the power of two. This beautiful but saccharine-sweet village is all mowed grass, classic cars and ageing couples with matching ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Oct 2009

Celebrity memoirs | Book reviews

Cold nights are drawing in, and with them come stories of Justin Lee Collins wetting himself on his parents' doorstep. Ah, Christmas, a time of turkey, of tinsel, and hardback books by those briefly kissed by celebrity, which weigh heavy like a second ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  3 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Jeremy Clarkson,  Virgin Books,  Kelly Osbourne,  Amy Winehouse,  Mazda

Small Wars by Sadie Jones| Book review

"We overestimate words," says Sadie Jones. As a screenwriter turned novelist, an Orange Prize nominee whose debut was a bestseller, a mother of two who's just finished her second novel, whose father is a poet, a woman who sits in a room lined with ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: David Cameron

How do you handle losing 'the one'?

"This is not a love story," a voiceover warns, as a Super-8 film of a young couple swoons across the screen. (500) Days of Summer is anti-love, a meta-romcom, which begins at the end of the pair's relationship and romanticises only the heartbreak of ...

From EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Sandra Bullock,  Kate Hudson,  Facebook Inc.,  Zooey Deschanel

From Margaret Drabble to Pixie Lott, we look at nine personal alfresco spaces

Home from home: pop star Pixie Lott in her auntie Dawn’s garden in Billericay, Essex. Photograph: Katherine Rose 'I work better in my little shed': Margaret Drabble in her study with its view across the Bristol Channel to Wales. ...

From TOM LAMONT, LUCY SIEGLE, GERALDINE BEDELL, EVA WISEMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Margaret Drabble,  Dean Koontz,  Sam Jones,  Facebook Inc.,  Alan Titchmarsh

Which is worse, obesity or dancing in public?

Eva Wiseman: Dancing is rubbish. Overrated, sweaty, rubbish, rubbish, it's for people who feel attractive and people whose arms and legs don't jerk away from their bodies like mine do, like teenagers ashamed to be seen with their mums. It's not right ...

From OBSERVER PANEL, EVA WISEMAN, MARY WARNOCK, REV DONALD MACLEOD, DIANE ABBOTT, Comment Is Free,  15 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Diane Abbott

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