| Stars forced to balance double life to kick their goal
HANGZHOU, China: From bodyguarding Russell Crowe to working for David Beckham, most of the players at the women's World Cup have day jobs to pay the bills.
Women footballers don't pull in big money like their male counterparts and while representing their countries at the World Cup here is what they strive for, the reality is that many will return to mundane jobs.
Some deliver mail, others teach at schools or work in supermarkets.
Australia's rising star Thea Slatyer though can claim to have more exotic employment - bodyguard to the stars.
The 24-year-old works as a minder to household names when they visit Sydney.
According to the Sun-Herald, she holds a firearms licence and is a martial-arts expert and has kept close check on Crowe, American actress Mischa Barton and Australian models Elle Macpherson and Megan Gale.
Mr Gossip steps into the real world
For a man who strikes fear into the heart of the modern celebrity, Perez Hilton looks disappointingly unthreatening in the flesh. He resembles nothing so much as an overgrown adolescent dropout: all dyed pink hair, baggy surfer shorts and thick-framed glasses. You could imagine him at high school, sitting at the back of the class in an ironic slogan T-shirt, the computer nerd who was never quite cool enough to be invited to the prom. 'Oh I don't think I was ever cool at school,' he admits, with a disarmingly high-pitched giggle. 'I'm still not one of the cool people. I'm a freak and that's a great thing.' It is not surprising that the 29-year-old Hilton revels in his freakishness. Over the past three years, the Los Angeles-based blogger has become an internet phenomenon. His blog, Perezhilton.com, an indefinable mishmash of exclusive celebrity gossip, acerbic put-downs and precisely targeted humiliation, now has 2.6 million visitors a month.
No Limits: Oak Grove alumna urges students to dream big.
Returning to the place where her love of performing began, Oak Grove High School graduate Shannon Lamb encouraged theater and drama students at the school last week to aim high in their life's goals.And Lamb, a 1995 graduate, has learned a thing or two about achieving her dreams. After 10 years in New York City, she returned to central Arkansas just over a year ago to seek other opportunities and to finish a degree in theater at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.She could not have even imagined that a few months later she would find herself on stage at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre portraying Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, in the docudrama "It Happened in Little Rock," inspired by the 1957 desegregation events at Little Rock Central High. She had auditioned for the part against actors from Hollywood and New York City, the place where she had found success herself.
People: Hugo Rifkind
Steve Hilton, the man widely regarded as the brains behind David Cameron, and his partner, Rachel Whetstone, are expecting a baby. Hilton and Whetstone worked alongside Cameron in Conservative Central Office in the early 1990s. They are godparents to the Camerons’ first child and were recently reported to have bought a £2 million home in Oxfordshire close to Dave and Samantha. They are not married, however. Which is awkward. Dave has been making Middle England-pleasing noises about the importance of married parents for many months. Tax incentives have been suggested. "We need a big cultural change," he said this year, "in favour of marriage." Martin Scorsese, who has made films about Dylan and the Rolling Stones, has chosen George Harrison as his next subject.
Home Video
Writer-director Judd Apatow ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") strikes again with one of the summer's funniest and smartest comedies. Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl star in the story of a slacker forced to grow up and become a man after his drunken one-night stand with a career-minded woman leaves her pregnant. Evening The filmmakers rounded up a remarkable cast for this yawner of a chick flick, including Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson. Based on Susan Minot's novel, the weepy romantic drama flits back and forth in time as a woman on her deathbed (Redgrave) relates to her daughters (Collette and Richardson) the story of a weekend 50 years earlier when she met the love of her life. Danes plays Redgrave's character in her youth.
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