Published: September 2, 2010
Now just a minority shareholder in the 30-strong sushi chain, Mr Woodroffe is concentrating on other Yo! projects on the go, from Yotel (which lacks the exclamation mark for some reason) to Yo! Home, a nascent concept he hopes eventually to stretch into branded homes ?a Donald Trump or Philippe Starke. “Cheri helps me organise [...]
Published: September 1, 2010
There’s even that classic 007 trope of a factory hideout patrolled by blokes in boiler suits. I enjoyed the moment when Alex, having flattened a bunch of goons with high-kicking moves, makes his getaway on a bicycle – would a stolen car send out the wrong message to starry-eyed teens? – but I couldn’t work [...]
Published: August 30, 2010
How embarrassing?Strutting around with a miniature guitar can feel a little foolish but you’ll soon get swept up trying to tame the fret board Overall score PlayStation2 as before Guitar Hero, £49.99 with guitar controller. Strike chords on the guitar-shaped controller while strumming a rhythm to songs including “Ace of Spades” and “I Love Rock [...]
Published: August 26, 2010
Arnold Schwarzenegger makes us feel the enjoyment of watching a film, of guns, explosions and violence, all in the knowledge that the lights will come up and we can all go home.The Terminator is so viscerally enjoyable, so deftly crafted, so unexpectedly satisfying in its resolution, that there is the temptation to legitimise this pleasure [...]
Published: August 22, 2010
So we scrimped and saved to have him educated privately at Lisvane, a preparatory school for Scarborough College.”At nine, he passed the scholarship examinations for Scarborough, but we were told we had to pay 50 per cent of the fees – about £400 a term We just could not afford it. Because of his age, [...]
Published: August 20, 2010
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Published: August 18, 2010
According to calculations apparently made at the Massachusetts institute of Technology, Santa has 91.8m homes to visit around the world each Christmas night, which, taking full advantage of the earth’s rotation, works out as 822.6 visits per second.
That is to say, for every Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to [...]
Published: August 13, 2010
A further statement of their idealism is the last of their “Ten Commandments of Gilbert & George”: Thou Shalt Give Something Back.Their apparent humanism does not wash with critics such as David Lee. “They claim to be social commentators, but they’re not really,” he says. “It’s just shock tactics.”It is clearly in Gilbert and George’s [...]
Published: August 11, 2010
They had a 4-2 aggregate lead over an Arsenal side reduced to ten men by the dismissal of Patrick Vieira.Then Dennis Bergkamp won and converted a penalty and Vialli, who had been all-action on the field, was reduced to helplessly biting his nails, watching and waiting as his team sought to hang on.Chelsea, who had [...]
Published: August 10, 2010
“If he did ask Paula Jones to give him oral sex, and she had given him no indication she was willing to do it, then that should be taken as sexual harassment. I don’t think it is right that someone in his position should get off.”Rachel Corson (31), the owner of a health food shop, [...]