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Dial M for madness

I would like to say before I begin that, under normal conditions, I am both a very reluctant and then, when finally pushed to it by extremely adverse circumstances, discreet crier. A quick burst of tears in a bedroom or loo, then I hit myself in the ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

This week: Belle du Jour, Sarah Palin and the MCC

The blogger-turned-bestselling-author who documented her secret life as a call girl revealed after five years of carefully maintained anonymity her true identity as scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti this week, apparently in a pre-emptive strike against an ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  Facebook Inc.,  Ben Elton

Book corner

Here we are at last, ensconced in the very last Book Corner (or at least, the last official Book Corner – a series of pleadings on my part have elicited permission to add an appendix-type affair next week to gather all oversights, discoveries and ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009

Last night's TV

I love television, I really do. It has given me so much over the years – company, laughter, guidance, a smattering of education and a wide variety of unrequited loves, from David Attenborough to Wentworth Miller. So I will forgive it almost ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: David Attenborough,  Wentworth Miller,  Jamie Cullum,  Ronan Keating,  Dionne Warwick

Dynasty | Cable girl

I literally could not – wait, let me check myself over . . . yes, I am right – I literally could not be happier. Not if I had a ginger kitten in each pocket and was on my way to a meringue-tasting soiree hosted by George Clooney and Hud-era Paul Newman. ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: George Clooney,  Paul Newman,  Joan Collins

The changing face of Katie Price

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off How does the Katie Price who has returned to I'm A Celebrity . . . differ from the Jordan who went to the jungle in 2004? Jordan (aka Katie Price) is back on ITV's I'm a Celebrity . . . In 2004, she ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: WH Smith

Lucy Mangan: Every year I find more reasons not to turn on the heating

There is an early episode of Smallville in which a high school student survives immersion in an icy, kryptonite-filled lake and spends the rest of his non-recurring role blue with cold, stumbling about looking for warmth. Anyone he touches turns to ice ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

This week: Les Scadding, Jedward and Sally Bercow

"I just kind of step back sometimes and say, 'There is some reason, and what is it that I have to share in a positive way?'" "Not even under torture would I tell you what I'm going to do." "We felt like we weren't inside for a while – it felt like we ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Vauxhall,  Simon Cowell,  Demi Moore

Cable Girl

The Victorian Kitchen Garden (UKTV Food) is a double dose of The Past. Not only is its subject matter over a century old, but the programme itself was made almost as long ago in media years – in 1987, which truly was a simpler, better televisual age. ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Sesame Street, here's to 40 more years | Lucy Mangan

"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Stree-ee-t, how to get to Sesame Street?" But of course I can! Just turn on your television set any time after 10 November 1969 and there it is – the slightly tatty New York thoroughfare peopled with an ...

From LUCY MANGAN, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Jim Henson,  Frank Sinatra,  Keith Harris

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