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Radio review: Last Word; Private Passions

When stars die, it’s sad. But at least you get to hear their work again in the tributes When I was a kid, the only way to see films, outside of the cinema, was when they were shown on telly, so the ideal news you could receive was of the death of a major film star. We’d run about the house going “Cary Grant’s gone! Yesssssss! Goodbye Six O’Clock news, hello North by Northwest!”, as a commemorative season hit the schedules. Then we had feel bad because he was dead. Now that I have a DVD player, I mainly get ...

Madhu Lakhotia’s unique skills

She does it in reverse, but no one complains. Madhu Lakhotia, who grew up in the city and then shifted to Mumbai, can sing any song in reverse and has made her name doing just that for many years now. In the city, visiting her parents, Madhu states that singing in the reverse comes naturally to her. “I discovered this talent when I was in school. This is used to be a large hit in the school antaksharis. I got married at the age of eighteen and shifted to mumbai which gave me a very good platform for my talent,” ...

TV review: Paul Merton’s Birth of Hollywood

Paul Merton gets the juice on Hollywood’s early years Why does Paul Merton dress as the Man from Del Monte whenever he goes abroad? He did it when he went traveling round China, and then again for his India series. Now here he is in California, in a white suit and panama, for Paul Merton’s Birth of Hollywood (BBC2). He’s picking an orange, too – maybe he is the Man from Del Monte. Paul Merton, he states … yes! I have heard it stated that Hollywood is run by juice… Actually it – the movies – started east of here.

Radio head: Desert Island Discs with Debbie Harry

The Blondie singer laughed her way through a distinctive, ballsy and cool interview Kirsty Young sounded the most daunted since she interviewed Morrissey as she approached Desert Island Discs with Debbie Harry. “It’s quite an odd thing,” she conceded, sitting before an icon. “I probably wasted a good 10 years wanting to be Debbie Harry,” she told her guest. Harry did a bemused tiny laugh, high-pitched and wandering, at this. The laughs got larger as the interview proceeded. Harry guffawed when Young asked her if truck drivers call out to her.

Recognise this former child star?

The way we remember him… Jonathan Lipnicki and Renee Zellweger in Jerry Maguire. Picture: File Source: news.com.au Lipnicki on The View yesterday. Picture: Snapper Media Source: news.com.au Starred at age five alongside ZellwegerShunned Hollywood for normal childhoodJerry Maguire boy back with new movie Jonathon Lipnicki, who charmed the world playing Renee Zellweger’s ultra-cute son in Jerry Maguire, is now all grown-up. The actor stepped back into the limelight yesterday, putting in an appearance on US morning show The View to spruik his new movie.

Controversial IPL cheerleader on B’wood!

Mumbai Indians cheerleader Gabriella Pasqualotto, who was sent home midway through IPL 4 for exposing the antics of some of the top players on a blog, has been offered a role in a major Bollywood motion picture and also been invited to the inaugural India Grand Prix in October. According to a report in a South Africa newspaper, the 22-year-old has been flooded with media requests from all over the world since her return to her native country. America’s NBC channel and top radio DJs from Australia have also requested for interviews of her.

Cable girl: Duty Free

This gloomy, comedy-free sitcom about randy Brits abroad made the Costa del Sol my idea of hell Nostalgia can be a hazardous thing, as I discovered the other night while watching Duty Free (ITV3) for old times’ sake. I’d forgotten that it just beats Butterflies to the title of bleakest sitcom since records began. It’s a wonder the package holiday industry did not collapse in the mid-1980s thanks to its gloomy depiction of randy Brits abroad. David (Keith Barron) stars as a recently redundant northerner on a Spanish holiday with wife Amy (Gwen Taylor).

Asparagus salad

4 good-quality eggs (I use Clarence Court Burford Browns) Snap the woody stalks off the asparagus spears and use a vegetable peeler to remove any outer fibrous parts. Lay in a shallow pan, add cold water just to cover and season with salt. Bring to a rapid boil, then simmer until tender, about three minutes (this way, I find you use less of the flavour than you do cooking asparagus in a massive quantity of water). Lift the asparagus from the water and set aside to cool – again, this way you retain more flavour than you do plunging the ...

‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ recap: Three Flat Tires And No Spares

Lynne alert! The banished Housewife was back, her mouth still hanging open from Fernanda’s clumsy revelation that the trainer and Tamra had sloppy drunk-kissed over a year ago. There was hot gossip to discuss over drinks, but Lynne needed Tamra to talk real slow. “Are you guys an item now?” she asked with her drowsy slur. Tamra adores nothing more than being the center of attention, especially if she imagines the scandal makes her seem sexy. There may have been tongue, she allowed, but absolutely no nipple tweaking.

Unreported World: China’s Lost Sons – review

Oliver Steeds’s film about a Chinese man’s search for his kidnapped son in the brick factories of Shaanxi province was the real journalistic deal Unreported World (Channel 4) is one of those documentary strands that makes me feel ashamed to call myself a journalist. While I’m sitting here on my arse watching the telly, Oliver Steeds is tearing about in China attempting to wield the sword of truth. That’s not simple to do when he is got three sinister black vehicles on his tail most of the time.