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Dan Glaister

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Hollywood’s Xmas hopes on Christmas filmgoers

Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.

A moving experience

The first priority for the new president, naturally, will be the court. Not the Supreme Court, but the basketball court.

Hispanics urged to flex muscles

Democrat campaign targets the swing state of New Mexico. Dan Glaister reports

Palin’s travels broadened the horizons

The young governor from the remote state engaged in her own brand of shuttle diplomacy in the summer of 2007, even posing with some of her troops.

Obama, McCain appear together for first time

Sharing the stage at a mega-church, Barack Obama and John McCain hardly had time for anything but the political equivalent of an air kiss.

Disability groups call for boycott of Stiller comedy

Reality has intruded on a Ben Stiller spoof war film in a way that its makers did not anticipate.

Actor Morgan Freeman seriously hurt in crash

The Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was said to be in a serious condition after the car he was driving flipped over several times late on Sunday.

Canadian community baffled by severed feet

Severed feet are washing up on shore in a whodunnit that has the locals in a Canadian fishing and ferrying community buzzing.

Children drink bleach on reality TV

An American television show has been billed as <i>Lord of the Flies</i> for the reality TV generation. Dan Glaister reports in Los Angeles

San Francisco braced to greet Olympic torch

Thousands of protesters were expected to line the route of the latest leg of the Olympic torch’s ”Journey of Harmony” on Wednesday as officials in San Francisco braced themselves…

180 taken from polygamist sect compound in Texas

Authorities removed more than 180 women and children from the Texas compound of a polygamist sect on Saturday evening after receiving reports of ”sexual and physical abuse”. The…

The Oscar hit list

The show will go on, even if there is a picket at the red carpet, writes Dan Glaister.

US navy to camouflage ‘swastika’ base

Painting a swastika on a public building is a hate crime. But what happens when the building itself is the swastika? While appearing innocuous from the ground, the striking shape…

Girl magnet, bunny magnate

Plans were announced recently for a biopic of the life of <i>Playboy</i>’s founder, Hugh Hefner, writes Dan Glaister in Los Angeles.

Chávez wins powers to rule by decree

Venezuela’s congress extended the authority of the President, Hugo Chávez, on Wednesday when it passed a measure allowing him to rule by decree. The legislation gives Chávez…

Dear Leader loses his toys

Kim Jong Il enjoys the fine things in life. Unlike his repressed subjects, the diminutive North Korean leader has a well-developed taste for fine wines, gourmet foods and Western…

The car of the future

Something very, very wrong is happening. I’m flying along the windy, cypress-lined roads of Pebble Beach in California being chased by a hairdryer. Or at least that’s what it…

Two heartbeats away from the White House

For all the talk of the first Democrat leader of the House since Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolution 12 years ago, perhaps an even bigger landmark is the ascension of a woman…

Iraq war fuels terror, says report

An authoritative United States intelligence report pooling the views of 16 government agencies concludes the US’s campaign in Iraq has increased the threat of terrorism. Its…

Arnie wins dream ticket for re-election

Arnold Schwarzenegger, it seems, has friends in high places. Some leading Hollywood liberals — the mythic entity said to prowl the hills of Los Angeles dispensing money and…