Pictures of Britney Spears and her infant son surfaced on the Internet on last week, but the singer said they were stolen and threatened legal action against anyone who showed the eagerly awaited images. Photos of Spears holding a
dark-haired child and another of the singer lying cheek to cheek with the baby had been removed from a number of Web sites by late on Friday.
Mario Testino, one of the biggest names in fashion photography, has come to the defense of Kate Moss, saying he has never seen the supermodel "debauched or out of control".
Speaking on BBC radio's Desert Island Discs programme broadcast yesterday, Testino said: "I know Kate very well and I don't think she's at all tormented, torrid, depressed.
"I have to say I'm not a witness to seeing her debauched or out of control," added the Peruvian-born, London-based photographer, who listed David Bowie's Life on Mars and the Sid Vicious' cover of My Way among his favorite tunes.
Moss's career went into a tailspin in Sept. when the Daily Mirror newspaper -- which earlier lost a major lawsuit to her --
published grainy images purporting to show her snorting cocaine in a London recording studio.
Several high-profile fashion houses reacted by cancelling their contracts with the 31-year-old runway queen, who has since gone into seclusion and into a drugs rehabilitation clinic in the US state of Arizona.
Sorry Oprah Winfrey and Madonna -- you just missed the cut.
Variety ranks the top 10 entertainment icons of the century in a new
commemorative issue marking the trade publication's 100th anniversary. The Beatles were dubbed the number one icon in the issue, currently on newsstands.
Following the Fab Four, the top 10 is rounded out by Louis Armstrong, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse and Elvis Presley.
Variety also lists 90 more icons, though not ranked. It includes Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Bob Dylan, the Marx Brothers, Johnny Carson, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna and others. Bugs Bunny did not make
Variety's list, but Pac Man did. The most contemporary choices were Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and Quentin Tarantino.
The Saatchi Gallery, ground zero for cutting-edge British contemporary art, was evicted last week from its central London premises for repeatedly breaching the terms of its lease.
A High Court judge ruled that the
gallery had deliberately breached the terms of its lease with Cadogan Leisure Investments by offering two-for-one
tickets in violation of a minimum
entrance fee for visitors.
He also ordered the gallery, which can appeal the ruling, to pay US$17,315 for damages caused by moving works of art into sections of County Hall not included in the lease.
The Saatchi Gallery -- which helped propel the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin into the limelight -- moved into County Hall, on the south bank of the River Thames, in early 2003.
"As yet we don't know what we're going to do," a spokesman for the gallery said, adding that the judge had yet to issue a possession order setting a firm date for vacating the premises.
Donald Trump isn't exactly saying he wants to fire his old friend and fellow mogul Martha Stewart but he says she's hurting the ratings of his television show The Apprentice. The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, a spin-off of Trump's corporate-themed The Apprentice reality show, was one of the most highly
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