memoirs

Choice Excerpts From Peter Costello’s Memoirs

2:08PM Jess McGuire | I haven’t had a chance to glance at Peter Costello’s giant sookfest, but I’ve just read a few lovely excerpts thanks to my friend Jessica who had an hour and a half spare whilst waiting for a late plane this morning and scribbled down the best bits. Are you ready? On what can loosely be described as his sense of humour:“In my later years as Treasurer, YouTube was also emerging as a powerful medium. Bloggers pick up parliamentary broadcasts carried on television and post them on YouTube. Some of my attempts at humour can be viewed there.” p76 More after the jump. More »

Barbara Walters’ Memoir Packed With Tales Of Former ‘Lovahs’, Including ‘The Blackest Man’ She Ever Slept With

9:10AM Molly Friedman | The ladies of The View had a lengthy meta-conversation all about the “very beautiful!” and “sexy!” photos of their own Barbara Walters in this month’s Vanity Fair. And while they do point out the photo spread’s accompanying excerpt from Walters’ new memoir Auditions, and Babs does allude to tales of past “lovahs,” she fails to mention (until Oprah makes her next week) just how tantalising some of those pages are. As today’s preview in the NY Daily News reveals, Walters was involved in a long-term affair with an African-American senator back in the swingin’ 70s. And from the sound of it, the affair was far spicier than all those Adrian Lyne movies about adultery: More »

Jason Donovan: “My Drug Hell”; Finally, A Chance To Use Our Favourite Headline!

10:57AM Clem Bastow | Clearly feeling he’d been out of the press for too long, Our Jase has admitted – mid-autobiography – to hoovering up the white stuff at Kate Moss’ 21st birthday party – so much, in fact, that he had to be carted away to hospital. Yes, nothing can divide us, it seems, except a prodigious drug habit and the intervention of those pesky emergency servicepeople! Donovan said he collapsed on the dance floor as the now deceased INXS frontman Michael Hutchence sang Van Morrison’s hit Gloria accompanied by [Johnny] Depp on guitar. “I am not sure what happened next but I do know that someone had pulled the plug on the music and was calling for an ambulance,” Donovan said. “A crowd had circled round me and Michael was standing over me trying to empty my trouser pockets. “‘Have you got anything on you?’ he kept asking me. Hutchence’s excuse was apparently that it wouldn’t be “cool” if the ambos found drugs on Our Jase’s person. But what a scintillating picture he paints of the heady days of all-star substance abuse! The Viper Room! Depp! Hutchence! Moss! Donovan! Expect the rights to be optioned to the Hallmark Channel within the next few months. More »