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During the Celtic Tiger <b>boom,</b> snakes became a popular pet among the Irish nouveau riche. But after the bubble burst, <b>many</b> <b>owners</b> abandoned the pets they could no longer afford.<br> She is officially <b>capitalism's</b> most polarising figureCongratulations/death <b>to</b> Gwyneth Paltrow, who is <b>now</b> officially late-stage capitalism's <b>most</b> polarising figure.<br> Last week she was named the world's Most Hated Celebrity; this week she was crowned that same world's Most Beautiful Woman.<br> Gwyneth's journey from actor&nbsp;to towering <b>cultural</b> idea is officially complete, and I hope you will&nbsp;join Lost in Showbiz in literally worshipping her/threatening casual violence against her in internet comments that end "HER KIDS LOOK MISERABLE<br><img src="http://1pageweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/im-sad-smiley.png"><br> JUST SAYIN".What<br> her dual triumph means, of course, is that Gwyneth has made it out of the little leagues.<br> She is going all&nbsp;the way to state! In fact, she is going <b>international.</b> Thanks to a couple of cookbooks, an <b>exercise</b> regime and a&nbsp;biennial supporting role in <b>a</b> superhero franchise, she is now eligible to compete against other loved/loathed list champs such as Aung San Suu Kyi and Joseph Kony. Sources close to the International List Association have indicated to this column that<br><img src="http://cdn.mos.totalfilm.com/images/p/pretty-woman-470-75.jpg"><br> Gwyneth will be seeded in such a tournament, though, of course, her progress will <b>depend</b> on which half of the draw she ends up in – it's pretty clear she would <b>want</b> to avoid finding herself in with Kim<br><img src="http://dreigen.edublogs.org/files/2012/12/a.aaa-2hq1kyb.jpg"><br> Jong-un or Malala Yousafzai.Having said that, let's not talk down&nbsp;her chances.<br> The key thing an increasingly list-driven culture has shown us is that celebrities perform hilariously well in these immensely <b>pointful</b> notional face-offs with people once perceived to have actual power.As Lost in Showbiz rarely tires of&nbsp;reminding you, Britney Spears' ex-husband once beat Syrian president Bashar <b>al-Assad</b> in a <b>list</b> of the most powerful men on the <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/natural-vitiligo-treatment">natural vitiligo treatment review natural vitiligo treatment </a> the age of 45.<br> In another triumph of list-based analysis, GQ <b>ranked</b> David Beckham as more powerful than Rupert Murdoch.<br> What may seem like asymmetric warfare – an unemployed<br><img src="http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/rsxfolife/Wtf.png"><br> backing dancer going up against a head of state&nbsp;with <b>chemical</b> weapons, or a footballer versus an international media mogul – is now a <b>contest</b> routinely tipped in <b>the</b> celebrity's favour. Any international despot-off or&nbsp;darling-off is Gwyneth's championship to lose.Inevitably, then, our next question must be: how would Gwyneth <b>perform</b> on an even bigger stage? The answer, Lost in Showbiz <b>reckons,</b> is "well".<br> Indeed, her progress could see Gwyneth making a compelling case to&nbsp;be Earth's pick against any benign <b>or&nbsp;malign</b> entities Up There, meaning she would go in against big hitters such&nbsp;as <b>black</b> holes or Little Baby Jesus or Megatron.As<br> for where <b>Earth</b> goes after this last<br><img src="http://photos.motogp.com/2012/11/11/girl_10_preview_big.jpg"><br> <b>week's</b> landmark list victories for&nbsp;Gwyneth, our destiny is set.<br> It is&nbsp;likely to be mere weeks before scientists identify the gene that determines a&nbsp;human being's reaction to Gwyneth Paltrow, an advance that will<br><img src="http://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/a-cute-dog-17.jpg%3Fw%3D500%26h%3D375"><br> ultimately allow governments to&nbsp;sort populations into biological tribes, each of which will be put to work in a <b>way</b> which most efficiently benefits the state.Those defective humanoids who find themselves simply without a strong view one way or the other on Gwyneth will become the <b>planet's</b> pariahs and be forced into hiding. A&nbsp;small enclave – probably the Faroe Islands – will become the sole territory in which it is not law to self-define as either Paltrowphilic or a Paltrowcidal maniac. The listocracy's coming, Earthlings: pick a lane.Gwyneth PaltrowCelebrityMarina Hydeguardian.co.uk<br> &copy; 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or<br><img src="http://imgix.8tracks.com/i/000/084/402/c/sad-wallpaper-2093.jpg%3Ffm%3Djpg%26q%3D65"><br> its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsWladimir Klitschko stopped Francesco Pianeta in the <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/Pregnancy-Miracle">Pregnancy Miracle </a> in Mannheim, Germany, to retain the World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation heavyweight <b>titles.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br></b> Hillary Rodham<br><img src="http://randomc.net/image/Lovely%2520Complex/Lovely%2520Complex%2520-%252003%2520-%2520Large%252009.jpg"><br> Clinton, who through <b>more</b> than three decades in public life has advocated on behalf of children, will be<br><img src="http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/movies/regional-movies/lovely/photo/12416023/Aadhi-and-Shanvi-in-a-still-from-the-Telugu-movie-Lovely.jpg"><br> honored this fall by the Children's <b>Defense</b> Fund.<br> The non-profit organization will recognize Clinton, a former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, at its 40th anniversary celebration on Sept. 30 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing <b>Arts</b> in Washington. Read full article &#62;&#62;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Officials and sailors from Artemis Racing have spoken little publicly of the May 9 accident in which a British sailor <b>died,</b> but the team is preparing to compete in the America’s Cup.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> The Obama administration has asked Congress for authority to implement historic voting<br><img src="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/9000000/Lovely-Baby-sweety-babies-9049984-400-320.jpg"><br> reforms in the International <b>Monetary</b> Fund that boost the<br><img src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/498865/498865,1298958422,1/stock-vector-sad-emoticon-72187144.jpg"><br> influence of emerging economies like China in the global <b>financial</b> institution, sources said on Tuesday. The bodies were found, a government spokesman said, after firefighters put out a fire at <b>the</b> crash <b>site</b> in Kyrgyzstan. Robert <b>Guy</b> Griffin, professor of chemistry and director of the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory; This Friday Nine Inch Nails will premiere the new video for "Came Back Haunted" <b>the</b> first single fro[...] Mr.<br> Mirante is a principal of the Canadian commercial real estate company Avison Young and the president of its Tri-State division, which was established last year in New <b>York.</b> Lady Gaga's new album ARTPOP will be released November 11th As stated in a post on her website Gaga'[...] I never <b>bought</b> a foreclosure.<br> I pay my mortgage faithfully. Now, is someone going to tell me a back-office clerk mishandled my title and <b>their</b> actions threaten my legitimate ownership? Will this mess hurt me <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/Shapeshifter-Yoga">Shapeshifter Yoga review </a> try to sell my home? European Union antitrust authorities raided the offices of major telecommunications companies this week in an inquiry into anticompetitive behavior. <b></b> wmode: "opaque" Mark Cousins on cinema's obsession with childhood, Jeff Nichols on the rise of <b>US</b> indie films, and another one bites the dust on troubled western Jane Got a GunThrough <b>a</b> <b>child's</b> eyesAnother late <b>British</b> entry to <b>the</b> Cannes jamboree is Mark Cousins's <b>personal</b> documentary, A Story of Children and Film.<br> It appeared as a quiet announcement in the increasingly influential and cherishable <b>Cannes</b> Classics sidebar, alongside great names and important restorations such as Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, Hitchcock's Vertigo (Kim Novak will be guest of honour), Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon and the new 3D version of Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. Cousins's film taps into the glory of film history,<br><img src="http://ivysays.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gossip-girl-leighton-meester-photo-shoot.jpg"><br> comprising clips of 53 films from 25 countries woven around footage of his own niece and nephew at play.<br> Cousins tells me: "When we think of Cannes we <b>think</b> of Catherine Deneuve and Brad Pitt. Yet the starting point of my little film is two<br><img src="http://hopeofglory.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451d62469e2017ee522a1bb970d-800wi"><br> very ordinary kids, <b>Laura</b> and Ben, from Cheshire, who haven't heard of Cannes.<br> If my film is good, it's in part because these kids are sort of oblivious to cinema. They think of me as uncle Mark, a guy who dances with them to Gangnam Style <b>and</b> <b>makes</b> them sausage and beans, not someone who makes films. So many films are great because the child authors the film with the adults."<br> Cousins lists his three favourite child performances as the girl in Mohammad-Ali <b>Talebi's</b> Bag of <b>Rice,</b> the girl in The White Balloon, the girl in Dorota <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/vision-without-glasses">vision without-glasses </a> Why are films so obsessed with childhood? "I <b>think</b> cinema is a bit Proustian," he says. "It's time found. Garbo is lost and, yet, when we watch her movies, <b>she</b> <b>isn't.<br></b> Every adult has their own time lost, their youth, and so we are moved by <b>seeing</b> kids in movies." This should be one of the highlights of the festival.Transfer windowMy favourite promotional gimmick of the year comes from the Hackney Picturehouse, which thrust upon me a set of Ryan Gosling tattoos, vaguely matching the body art the actor sports in The Place Beyond the Pines and<br><img src="http://aucklandmtb.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/womens-rides.jpg"><br> one, I'm pleased to note, still <b>doing</b> great business at the UK box office. The tattoos are designed by Nic Farrell, a Cambridge-based illustrator and typographical artist who used to work front of house <b>at</b> the Cambridge Picturehouse. "I looked at stills of Ryan with his <b>top</b> off and matched what <b>I</b> saw," she tells me.<br> "It wasn't a bad commission, staring at a naked Ryan Gosling.<br> I don't know if he's seen them yet. Or worn them." All proceeds go to the clean water charity Plan.<br> My kids have been wearing them to nursery school, which is perhaps a bit inappropriate, but you're never too young to Gosling yourself up a bit.His<br> name is MudTalking of tattoos, director<br><img src="http://media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/avatars/bringing_pretty-1346104767_600.jpg"><br> Jeff <b>Nichols</b> is sporting an ace of clubs on <b>his</b> left arm, two initials written on its three sides. "Yeah, me and my brothers got drunk a few months ago and all three of <b>us</b> had it done," he says a little sheepishly. Wow, I didn't <b>know</b> that still actually happened.<br> <b>"We're</b> from the south," <b>he</b> says. And his films certainly attest to that <b>–</b> Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and, now, Mud, starring southern actors <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/forex-growth-bot">forex growth bot </a> and, briefly, Reese Witherspoon.<br> Nichols lives in Austin, <b>Texas,</b> which is becoming to indie film making as Nashville is to country music.<br> "There's quite a scene there," he <b>says.<br></b> "You've got Richard Linklater, who's very vocal and supportive, and you've even got Terrence Malick, if you can find him, but you can't." Mud is one of my favourite <b>films</b> released this year, along with The Place Beyond the Pines and Gimme the Loot. For the first <b>time</b> in ages, American indie films are <b>high</b> up the list. "I think there's a definite revival," says Nichols. "The <b>indie</b><br><img src="http://dreigen.edublogs.org/files/2012/12/a.aaa-2hq1kyb.jpg"><br> crowd is where Mud is making itself big. The studios' way of making and releasing films is just too out of reach to most<br><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4VIFD_h958A/TasyUbeh3NI/AAAAAAAABfU/mDT-Jj32S-Q/s1600/lovely.JPG"><br> <b>of</b> us, so we're having to look to different ways into the business and, <b>you</b> know, there's enough of us doing it to make those routes viable and<br><img src="http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110208/640/funny_demotivational_posters_640_02.jpg"><br> profitable.<br> It's all a little slower but these sorts of films have to grow audiences, not blitz them.<br> There's nothing wrong with a bit of quiet."<br> Malick would certainly appreciate that.Not<br> wild about the westBradley Cooper is the latest <b>high-profile</b> figure star to quit Jane Got a Gun, the western that director <b>Lynne</b> Ramsay left just before the first day of the shoot. Michael Fassbender and Jude Law are others to have jumped the film, which is currently on hold as new director Gavin O'Connor <b>finalises</b> his plans. This has left Ramsay with the <b>time</b> to take her place on the Cannes jury, under Steven Spielberg. Actor <b>Joel</b> Edgerton is almost the last man <b>standing</b> on Jane <b>Got</b> <b>a</b> Gun – ironically a film about a last woman standing – and he also stars in The Great Gatsby, which opens <b>Cannes.<br></b> Will <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/ex-girlfriend-guru">i want my girlfriend back </a> on the Croisette <b>for</b> opening night under the gaze of Ramsay after all?Cannes 2013Cannes film festivalDocumentaryMatthew McConaugheyRyan GoslingTattoosWesternsBradley CooperLynne RamsayJason Solomonsguardian.co.uk<br> &copy; 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.<br> | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly <b>develop</b> applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed.<br> LongJump's platform gives<br><img src="http://lovelystationery.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/lovely-stationery-the-queen-of-spades1.jpg"><br> users a set of models and templates for building <b>applications,</b> with no need to code, according to <b>Software</b> AG's announcement. Applications can be deployed on public and private cloud services, <b>as</b> well as on premises and through mobile devices. People <b>have</b> long been trying to figure out what the right amount of exercise is, but the focus lately is on the shortest period possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br> Filed under: Cellular, BusinessLooks like the <b>nation's</b> largest carrier spent a staggering $86 million to upgrade its wireless network in Sin City last year, surpassing the estimate of $46 million which was initially forecast.If you're in Vegas any time <b>soon</b> and don't have a good wireless signal, Cingular probably wants to know about it<br><img src="http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2012/11/47/3/301/3019466/Someecards-COVER.xxxlarge/i/Funny-Thanksgiving-Someecards.jpg"><br> <b>after</b> spending so much in upgrading the level of service there. Just don't count cards on that new Windows Mobile smartphone, ok?Read&nbsp;|&nbsp;Permalink&nbsp;|&nbsp;Email this&nbsp;|&nbsp;Linking&nbsp;Blogs&nbsp;|&nbsp;Comments Madonna joins Anderson Cooper, “Jersey Shore” cast and others at GLAAD Media Awards. Eighteeen movies <b>inspired</b> by true stories may <b>vie</b> this year for Oscar nominations ? <b>19,</b> if you're a Red Sox fan and want to count "Fever <b>Pitch."<br></b> • 'LLDC have not stuck by their own rules,' says Hearn• Orient want West Ham to <a href = "http://zed15.tumblr.com/Fibroids-Miracle">Fibroids-MiracleFibroids-Miracle </a> StadiumThe Leyton Orient chairman, Barry Hearn, has launched proceedings for a judicial review over the decision to allow West Ham to <b>seek</b> sole tenancy rights to the Olympic Stadium.Hearn believes the London Legacy Development Co