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Saturday, April 5, 2014
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Lawson invited to reapply for US visa The US has invited British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson to reapply for a visa after she was blocked from entering at the weekend, reportedly for her admissions of cocaine use. A spokeswoman for the US embassy in London declined to specify why Lawson had been barred from flying from Heathrow to Los Angeles, after a newspaper report linked the incident to the chef’s past drug use. But the spokeswoman suggested the 54-year-old “Domestic Goddess” should visit the embassy to reapply for a visa. Lawson admitted last year to taking cocaine and cannabis in the past, as she appeared as a witness in the trial of two former personal assistants who were later cleared of fraud.
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Letterman’s good night to Late Show David Letterman, a pillar of American late-night TV talk shows, has announced that he’ll be stepping down as host of Late Show next year after a 22-year run. “We don’t have the timetable for this precisely down,” said Letterman, 66, during a live taping yesterday of his highly-rated CBS show at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. “I think it will be at least a year or so, but sometime in the not too distant future – 2015 for the love of God, in fact – Paul and I will be wrapping things up,” he said, referring to the show’s musical director Paul Shaffer. Famous for his wry Midwestern humour, Letterman premiered the show, then called Late Night, in 1982.
Willie Nelson’s armadillo returned A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show. Officials at the Westin Lake Las Vegas resort in Henderson say the critter, named Ol’ Dillo, vanished while audience members were greeting Nelson after a Monday night concert. Westin marketing director Matt Boland says Nelson’s crew called in the middle of the night from the road, asking the resort to scour surveillance footage after the mascot went missing. Boland says he was outside the hotel when an apologetic man drove up and handed him a shoebox and instructions to return it to Nelson. Boland says the armadillo was inside and was sent to the singer in California.
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Bird’s-eye view of Angkor Wat Cambodia’s Angkor Wat has been digitally mapped for the first time, allowing people to visit the World Heritage Site from the comfort of their armchair using Google Street View. The project is part of a growing trend aimed at internet users who might otherwise never have the chance to visit the cultural and architectural wonders of the world. Google took more than a million photos of Angkor – the result is 90,000 360-degree views of more than 100 temples. Street View allows web users to zoom in on an area, and then explore. “Recently we’ve done the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon, Mount Fuji,” said Manik Gupta, project manager at Google Maps. “But the scale of Angkor Wat is what makes this unprecedented,” he told AFP at the project’s launch yesterday. “It is such an iconic place, people say it is the eighth wonder of the world, and it gives you this incredible sense – look at every single small nook and cranny, you’ll find art work.” To create the project Google used a new innovation called “Trekker”. Fifteen digital cameras are attached by a long pole to a backpack, and each one records a 75 million mega pixel photo every two and a half seconds.
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Photo embarrasses Winslet Actress Kate Winslet refuses to sign pictures of her iconic naked scene in Titanic because she is still embarrassed by the experience. The Brit stripped off for a scene in which her socialite character Rose DeWitt Bukater was sketched naked by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson, and the memory still haunts her thanks to brazen autograph-hunters. “I don’t sign that (picture). It feels very uncomfortable. Why would you do that? People ask me to sign that (picture) a lot,” she told Yahoo! Movies. “There’s a photo of it as well that someone has lifted from a still of the film, and that photo gets passed around too. I’m like ‘No! I didn’t mean for it to be a photograph that I would end up seeing still 17 years later’.”
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