Tom Jones

Tom Jones gave me a Strepsil... I wish I'd kept it

The Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday

AS final Gavin & Stacey series is near James Corden & Ruth Jones talk about how it feels

At long last, a movie about Tom Jones' genitalia.

The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

If you're anything like me, you think to yourself "Gosh, 'Mars Attacks!' is really funny and by far Tom Jones' finest moment on screen, but I wish there was more material about his penis in it." OK, so maybe that isn't true. Regardless, at long last it's here: "A Bit of Tom Jones?", a new Welsh comedy so low-profile it doesn't yet have an IMDb entry. The original title -- the point-blank...

Kanye West & Tom Jones Smash Download Recording History With 'Rap Da Valley'

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | yesterday

New York & London: Music moguls are bracing themselves for a new genre of rap music predicted to take the world by storm. 'Valley Rap' invented by megastar Kanye West and recorded as a Rap da Valley duet with veteran superstar Tom Jones is...

Sublime Dame Shirley

A Curious Girl's Guide to Life (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

I've never been a fan of Dame Shirley Bassey. She always seemed like a relic from a different time. I was vaguely aware of songs like Diamonds Are Forever, Hey Big Spender, and the lady from Tiger Bay in her sequinned gowns. But she was never competing for attention on my ipod.Until yesterday.A couple of weeks ago, I heard Dame Shirley on Dermot O'Leary's radio show. She's done a Tom Jones with

It is unusual: low-budget Welsh film outperforms big hitters

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Bawdy farce involving Tom Jones's penis becomes a multiplex sensation The Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol are playing to respectable audiences Merthyr Tydfil's Vue multiplex, entertaining fans with their multimillion pound effects. But in screen eight, the staff are having to drag in extra beanbags in an attempt to accommodate everyone who wants to see a comedy made for just £100,000...

A Day At The Races, for Hilton Stilton and major boost to the Lord Mayors Charity

Professor Chucklebutty's Liverpool (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Grotty Cash Executive Prepare Strategy for Next Weeks Crucial Finance Meeting By Jove Missus, it's political corruptives gone mad! Can't you have a bit of fun on the rates these days without people having a go at you? I am referring to a recent disgraceful attack on my very good friend and Town Clerk for Grotty Cash, Mr Hilton Stilton and his expenses management team. Yes it's that Stinky Ink Bartlets,...

Jeenifer Rush , Martin Ferris and the Power of love

Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

The whispers in the morning Of lovers sleeeeping tight Are rolling like thunder now As I look in your eyes I hold on to your body And feel each...

Fans splash the cash for Michael Jackson memorabilia

News: News blog | guardian.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

Items belonging to King of Pop fetch prices far in excess of those predicted at New York auction The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has turned out to be an auctioneers' dream celebrity as prices for Jackson memorabilia outstrip those for items that belonged to Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. Thousands of bidders from around the world were attracted to the auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York,...

• Michael Jackson 'Bad', Moonwalk memorabilia sold at auction - New Musical Express
• Michael Jackson glove sells for $350,000 - Digital Spy

Former minister fires back

Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

MLA Alden McLaughlin, the former minister of education, responded in length to a statement put out by general contractor Tom Jones International last week, saying it was filled with "many inaccuracies and deliberate untruths".

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Robin Hood' learns he has a half-brother

Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Nov. 22 - 28 in PDF format This week's TV Movies BROTHERS: Gisborne and Robin (Richard Armitage, left, Jonas Armstrong, right) work together to save their half-brother (Clive Standen, center)...

Ten of the best: teachers

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Abelard Abelard was a brilliant early-medieval theologian and rhetorician who agreed to take on Héloïse as a pupil. The two began an affair, and when it was discovered, she was sent to a nunnery and he was castrated. The story has often been retold, notably by Alexander Pope. "From lips like those what precept failed to move? Too soon they taught me 'twas no sin to love." Holofernes...

Electric guitar, Hammond B-3 organ, and depression

The Paragraph Farmer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

It's a great Hank Williams song. My favorite version is by the Notting Hillbillies, but that's because Mark Knopfler was in the Notting Hillbillies. He plays here with Tom Jones on the vocal, and that pairing works wonderfully, too.

Look Up and Live

Viewfinder BLUES (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Few sights strike fear into the heart of a TV news photographer like that of a decapitated live truck . The flattened tires, broken mast, charred doors and buckled pavement; it's not the least bit ghoulish to expect a body bag in this shot. Miraculously, none were needed in Atlanta yesterday . Longtime photog Leonard Raglin and WSB reporter Tom Jones walked away with only moderate injuries after their...

WSB-TV employees survive truck explosion

ajc.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Two WSB-TV employees are being treated at Grady Memorial Hospital after the news truck they were operating caught fire and exploded.

re: Renton Man Allegedly Tried to Have Business Partner Murdered

Slog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Hey Garrett . Beat you. Killebrew told Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones that she was shocked when her 16-year-old son told her his substitute math teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School was trying to hire a hit man to kill him . “I was extremely upset. I called the school at that moment,” said Killebrew. Killebrew’s attorney said the incident began when Forde called the...