SITH SENSE Star War wars feels the critics’ force I The release of the most recent Star Wars film has finally put an end to the tedious weeks of photos. interviews and previews filling the press. Now that the papers can print actual reviews of Revenge of the Sith, the hype may actually die down. Everyone tends to agree that Revenge of the Sith is far better than its two predecessors. but whether or not this makes it a good film is still debatable. The Evening News gave it four stars. praising it for bringing the saga ‘to a largely satisfying conclusion‘. and The Herald thought it was ‘well-paced. atmospheric. beautifully put together and genuinely involving'. The Evening Times was more dismissive. bemoaning the lack of the likes of Harrison Ford who had injected ‘much needed wit‘ into the original films. and awarded just two stars. But none was as scathing as The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw. who handed it one puny star, having found ‘zero comic moments’ in what seemed like ‘seven hours of CGI action as dramatically weightless as the movement of tropical fish in an aquarium'.
KY LIE'S CANCER
Celeb‘s illness kills her mythic status I Celebrity involvement with a good cause always boosts charitable donations, so it’s no surprise that, despite the already high public awareness of breast cancer, Kylie Minogue’s recent announcement about her illness has spurred a sudden rush of donations to cancer charities and so many messages of goodwill that her official website had to be temporarily shut down. Metro reported that hits on the Breakthrough Breast Cancer
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I Breasts are gonna be big this season. Well. that’s if the men’s mags are to be believed. There are so many nipples it's easy to become desensitised. and readers are likely to jolt with surprise when a woman is photographed in more than a hankie. The good news is that lan Curtis is now a style icon, according to Maxim, a magazine whose fixation with bosoms comes second only to its fondness for a good graph. something
of a porno maths book.
I Weeklies Nuts and 200 have put enough wind up the monthlies for the one-time king of the gentlemen’s monthlies Loaded to relaunch. Its refreshing new take on what a man wants? That would be putting an Abi Titmuss DVD on the cover and knocking 90p off the cover price. Ingenious. Maybe it’s the name but Titmuss seems to have become the patron saint of lad mags, appearing in all seven samples
here.
I FHM remains the brand leader but has slimmed down of late, forgoing features in favour of lists. Presumably men only want to read more than 100 words at a timewhen it's about killer sharks or criminals. Arena and GO go high brow with better features (Iraq. Chris Martin in Africa. Ewan MacGregor) but essentially it‘s the same boobs looking slightly greasier from arty angles. Proof that whether you’re a dot.com millionaire or a builder‘s lackey, your fundamental requirements are the same. It makes you wonder why, if all this smut was so popular, men weren’t buying magazines full of naked ladies before now? Ahem . . .
website have doubled and that calls to the Breast Cancer Care helpline have tripled, while The Scotsman gave readers advice on ways to support breast cancer causes — from running in the Edinburgh Marathon on 12 June to buying a pink wristband for £1 from Breast Cancer Care. The Daily Record profiled other celebrity survivors of the disease such as Anastacia and Olivia Newton—John and encouraged its readers to be breast aware,
reasoning that ‘if she can get it, anyone can’. Well, quite. It’s easy to forget that celebrities aren’t somehow superhuman, and as Libby Brooks noted in the 62 section of The Guardian. Minogue, with her airbrushed, ‘confected’ image, never seemed to have ‘so mundane a component as cells’. Kylie has been shown to be mortal flesh and blood, and that loss of mythic status seems to be almost as sad to the public as the news of her disease.
‘Last time I met her we were in a restaurant together. She slammed the menu down and screamed: “I hate reading; someone tell me what’s on the menu!” ‘I mean, I’m blonde but c’mon.’
Pamela Anderson on the shock revelation that Paris Hilton might not be on the Booker judging panel this l/Ot'if.
‘There would be outcry if the map was angled from the north, because it would have Barra bigger than London and Lewis twice the size of the south-west.’ SNP MP Angus Mac/Veil hits out at the all-new BBC weather map which gives a slanted view of the United Kingdom. Quite literally.
‘Rugby is my first love.’ Gavin Henson tel/s Charlotte Church exact/y iat a girl probably doesn't want to hear.
‘Some people will think I’m a neo-Nazi or that l have cancer or I’m a lesbian.’ .‘vgitalie Port/nan agrees there's no husiness like shorn business.
‘Before the show started we urged the producers not to act as they did last time. Yet they continue to gratuitously allow invasive procedures on live animals.’ A spokesperson for the RSRCA hits out at fires The Farm.
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