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Sunday 19 May 2013

Angelina Jolie at the Oscars

The leg that peeked out of the thigh-high slit of her Versace gown was the most exciting appearance on the red carpet.

The gown fit perfectly into the sleek, simple, sexy mould that Jolie favours, but it was Jolie's picture-perfect pose to expose just enough thigh that launched a thousand memes.

Her companion Brad Pitt gets an honourable mention for his scruffy appearance in a Chanel fragrance ad that left many scratching their heads.

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The Beatles started a revolution back in the USSR

If ever a band has been well served by the literary world it's The Beatles. Practically every aspect of that revolutionary body of work has been dealt with in book form... or so one would have thought. From Hunter Davies' The Beatles, through Philip Norman's Shout, Bob Spitz's humongously detailed history and Ian McDonald's brilliant Revolution in the Head, which offered a musical and contextual analysis of every song they ever recorded, surely there's nothing left of interest to diehard fans of the Fabs. Well, think again.