GEORGE Orwell, the British author best known for the novels Animal Farm and 1984, was recruited by the Foreign Office to help his country fight Soviet propaganda.
He offered in 1949 to provide intelligence services with a list of writers he regarded as "crypto-communists" and "fellow-travellers" who could not he trusted, according to Public Record Office documents recently released and quoted by several newspapers.
Actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, at present in the Czech Republic for the film festival at Karlovy Vary, is to publish a non- autobiographical, "observational"
book based on her life next year for
"I decided to write this book because I felt it was really time to say something - and I have a LOT of 'somethings' to say something about", Goldberg said.
The book will he titled The Book, and will include Goldberg's affair with actor Ted Danson.
O. J. Simpson's double murder trial and acquittal may have had a strange effect on the former football star's oldest son Jason, who gained 36 kg (80 lbs) during the televised trial.
"He looked like Marion Brando. He's just blimping up", the Globe tabloid was informed. It ran "before and after" photographs of Jason Simpson, who recently dropped out of college to work as a chef.
Actor Sam Waterston, who starred in The Killing Fields, Hew into Cambodia yesterday for a visit aimed at highlighting the misery caused by anti-personnel mines.