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Italy football hooligans worst in Europe?

Another spat between Italian police and football supporters has resulted in the death of an innocent football fan. Hooligans in Italy used this to torch / fight / maim anyone within grabbing range. What is so wrong with Italian culture, admired worldwide, that there are so many violent thugs taking over football there?

Is it because Italian football is so successful, they are world champions and champions league winners, so mindless criminals join in to stop the party?

Roma fans certainly know how to provoke violence, look at the meetings last year between Man Utd and Roma in the champions league.

Where does the  football violence in Italy go from here? Maybe new stadiums would help instead of the gladitorial arenas present now, but Italy seems to have taken over from Brit fans in the 1980’s which led to Liverpool, boot the ball, being out of European football for years.

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David Cameron - your plumber

Yellow pages have not added the entry yet, but Tory party leader David Cameron may have to get his white boiler suit out if luscious model Kate Moss gives him a call.

At a recent charity ball, David Cameron got speaking to leggy Kate about UK flooding but it appears she didn’t twig that she was speaking to the future prime minister as she asked for Cameron’s phone number in case she had a sewage or drainage problem.

Which raises the question, if Kate Moss DID call David, would he surrepticiously don his plumbers outfit and sneak round to Kate’s and give her a good clear out?

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Sex Pistols shake Brixton

What a blast from the past. Old boys the Sex Pistols have got themselves out of bed, dragged a comb across their head, and shambled on stage at Brixton Academy to do a what? A benefit concert, a pastiche of themselves, or a laugh?

When the Pistols first arrived on the music scene, a quarter of a century ago, (yes that long ago), spitting and contempt were the vehicle used to sell their music. God Save the Queen, their anthem of respect to her majesty,  was a shocker, topping the charts and ensuring despair for youth by the establishment. Mary Whitehouse did not apparently buy or listen to any Sex Pistols CDs before joining the chorus of BBC bans and dissapproval which sealed Johnny Rotten’s elevation to stardom.

To repeat the rise of the youth movement which accompanied the Sex Pistols outlandish performances is impossible, even at the Brixton academy. In the words of Paul McCartney, who used them to confirm there would not be a Beatles reunion, ‘you can’t reheat a souffle’. Whether Johnny Rotten doesn’t like to be compared to a souffle is immaterial, they have neither the back catalogue or charisma to keep going, say like Elton John, or the Rolling Stones, from whose era the Sex Pistols, if they like it or not, belong.

However, as a good time pub band, to drink and make merry with while the Sex Pistols play their old songs, ah that’s a different story. Today Brixton, tomorrow the hair transplant.

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The Champions to appear on the big screen

1960’s iconic TV series the Champions, starring beautiful Alexandra Bastedo is to make its Hollywood film debut soon. Made during the era of other classics such as The Saint and animated series Thunderbirds, The Champions got their superhuman abilities following a plane crash in the mountains.

Doubtless recent TV phenomenom Heroes was a catalyst in getting movie finance for The Champions production. With a similar plotline of normal humans somehow embued with psychic abilities, Heroes, which personally I didn’t enjoy that much, was a great success both in the US and in Europe.

Shame that Alexandra Bastedo will not be in the film, but only actors in their 20’s should apply, I guess. The new Champions film will be directed by Guillermo del Toro, who has received several Oscar nominations in the past.

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Michael Jackson - Ebony issue airbrushed?

Leading black iconic magazine Ebony has published new pictures of Michael Jackson showing the star singer with such white skin that journalists  are shouting AIRBRUSH! The pictures, particularly those on Ebony’s front cover are striking by the lack of facial lines (Michael is now in his 40’s) and glossy translucent skin.

Following his return to Las Vegas to raise cash to meet mounting debts, Jackson has found it difficult to get gigs. Promotors blow hot and cold, worrying about audience reaction following the traumatic trials alleging child abuse. There seems to be little interest in watching Michael Jackson perform, amazing given that just a few short years ago you could hardly hear him mime on stage because of the screaming of hysterical fans. But the world of Pop moves on, kids would rather hear Beyonce or Rihanna these days.

Auctions of Michael Jackson memorabilia have encountered similar fates, with sparsely attended halls and sales which barely pay cost, let alone the 20 to 50 million dollars hoped for. Reunions with the Jackson 5 have stuttered and look like fading. Where is the new album? What is to become of Michael, who was the most famous singer in pop history, and yet is despised by so many even though he was found not guilty of child abuse?.

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Hugh Grant selling up to raise money

Four weddings and a funeral actor Hugh must be hard up if he has to sell his prize painting by Andy Warhol to raise some cash. Even though its expected to raise millions of pounds what has gone wrong that he needs to sell up? Perhaps too many sports cars? It’s either that or Hugh Grant is an astute businessman, buying up a Warhol painting and then selling it on a few years later for multiple times the value he paid for it.

So now it’s art dealer Hugh, is there anything he does that doesn’t make money. If it’s so easy to make money at the art auctions maybe he doen’t need to make films anymore, which may come as a relief after some of the films ( apart from love actually) have bombed at the box office.

Perhaps we’ll see Hugh Grant at the Tate soon, eyeing up the next acquisition. Why work when you can just lob a few million at a painting and wait for the value to increase. It’s just another money making scheme like buying a property on a mortgage, renting it out to pay the loan, and waiting for the value to increase. If only everything was so simple.

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