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Tweet Andy Warhol predicted the “15 minutes of fame” culture more than 40 years ago. Now scientists have declared it official: we really are becoming shallower. An investigation of fame based on the appearance of the names of actors, writers, politicians and scientists in literature has concluded that people are more famous than ever before, [...]

Tweet This is 22 year old pogomix’s new track Wishery, comprising vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, it’s reached over 1.1 millions views on youtube in less than a week! After a year producing professionally for Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios, the [...]

Tweet Click has been shortlisted for two awards in the national Student Radio Association’s 2010 awards, which will be announced this Thursday 11 November by Radio One at London’s O2. Last year Click earned the Silver award in the Chart Show of the Year category in the Student Radio Association’s 2009 awards. This year Click [...]

Tweet Cinema chain blames World Cup for slump in takings and pins hopes on wave of 3D films, including latest JK Rowling adaptation the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Cineworld said admissions dropped by 681,000 to 22.7m in the first six months of the year as Britons chose the action in the Cape Town over Iron [...]

Tweet The Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas is being treated for a tumour in his throat. The star of Wall Street and Romancing the Stone, 65, said he hoped to make a full recovery. He was due to undergo eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy. “I am very optimistic,” he said. Douglas’s spokesman Allen Burry said [...]

Tweet Author Andrew O’Hagan has said that his novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe will be turned into a soon to be produced film starring Angelina Jolie as the screen siren and George Clooney will play Frank Sinatra. Speculation over the project has been growing over [...]

Tweet Whilst once the DJ could be seen towering over a pair of steel turntables, holding his vinyl aloft or even spinning it above his head, in more recent years it’s become a much less visual art. As disc jockeys have moved from vinyl to CDs and laptops they’ve been reduced to fiddling with knobs [...]

Tweet It’s less than three months since her split from Welsh rugby star Gavin Henson, but Charlotte Church is preparing herself to reveal the heartache behind the break up with the release of her new album ‘Back to Scratch’. In shops on 1 November, the album is made up of emotional songs that reflect Char’s [...]

Tweet After a month of testing, Flickr is rolling out its massively redesigned photo pages to all of its users. The redesign overhaul focuses three key aspects of the photo page: the navigation, the context behind photos and the size of photos themselves. Flickr has increased the default view size of photos “by 28%” — [...]