Virgin Australia’s sneaky lure to get Aussies to book the middle seat

Virgin Australia’s sneaky lure to get Aussies to book the middle seat

It’s arguably the worst place on the plane – but now there’s $230,000 worth of reasons you might want to opt for the middle seat. Virgin Australia has launched a new campaign whereby passengers who have either voluntarily – or been slapped – with the middle seat will now enter a ‘lotto’ to win tens … Read more

‘The Batman’ plot swiped from comic book scribe’s 1990 story: suit

‘The Batman’ plot swiped from comic book scribe’s 1990 story: suit

Holy plagiarism, Batman! Hollywood’s latest swing at “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader, is little more than a literary heist by Warner Brothers, a comic book illustrator and writer claims in a lawsuit.  Christopher Wozniak argues the plot of the smash-hit 2022 film is a near carbon copy of a 1990 Batman … Read more

Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during Cuban Missile Crisis, ex-Secret Service bodyguard claims in new book

Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during Cuban Missile Crisis, ex-Secret Service bodyguard claims in new book

Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, according to revelations in a new book by the former first lady’s Secret Service bodyguard. When he offered to hide Kennedy and her children, John and Caroline, during the nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the US, … Read more

How Madonna’s nude ‘Sex’ book caused a scandal 30 years ago

How Madonna’s nude ‘Sex’ book caused a scandal 30 years ago

A week before its provocative pages were exposed to the world 30 years ago, Madonna’s scandalous “Sex” book came to life at its infamous launch party in New York. The BDSM-themed bash — which turned Industria Superstudio in the Meatpacking District into a den of debauchery — had everything from naked women suspended in the … Read more

Book holiday airline tickets this week, expert says: It’s the ‘sweet spot’

Book holiday airline tickets this week, expert says: It’s the ‘sweet spot’

Travelers seeking to get away for the holidays this year should book this week, one industry expert says. “Where we are is what I consider the sweet spot of holiday travel,” Hayley Berg, lead economist of travel app Hopper, told FOX Business.  Berg said holiday airline prices tend to be “very high” in the summer because … Read more

Harry and Meghan may be banned from Charles’ coronation if book disses Camilla

Harry and Meghan may be banned from Charles’ coronation if book disses Camilla

This may be a full-on battle royal!  All eyes will be on the royal family this spring for King Charles’ coronation on May 6.  But it seems His Majesty’s youngest son, Prince Harry, 38, and his wife Meghan Markle, 41, may be personas non grata at the regal celebration if the couple plans to attack … Read more

The best book to read based on your zodiac sign

The best book to read based on your zodiac sign

Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” But depending on your zodiac sign, not all friends are created equal. Since the dawn of humanity, we have been storytellers. Literature is one of the greatest art forms human kind has ever known. Great epics fascinated the first people, who passed … Read more

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward had a ‘F–k Hut’ where they’d get ‘intimate, noisy and ribald’: New book

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward had a ‘F–k Hut’ where they’d get ‘intimate, noisy and ribald’: New book

Paul Newman is remembered as an iconic sex symbol, but apparently never truly felt like one until he met Joanne Woodward. The admission comes from the actor’s forthcoming posthumous memoir, “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” (Knopf, Oct. 18). The book is based on interviews with friends and family and Newman himself over the … Read more

Chris Albrecht Put on Administrative Leave by Legendary Television as New HBO Book Arrives

Chris Albrecht Put on Administrative Leave by Legendary Television as New HBO Book Arrives

Legendary Television president Chris Albrecht has been placed on a leave of absence by the company, a spokesperson for Legendary confirmed to Variety Monday. No official reason for the exec’s leave of absence was provided. Albrecht has been benched just as an upcoming book, “It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution and Future of HBO” … Read more

Prince Harry turned down a crisis meeting with Prince William after he opened up about their rift in a TV documentary, a new book claims

Prince Harry turned down a crisis meeting with Prince William after he opened up about their rift in a TV documentary, a new book claims

Valentine Low’s new book about the royal family, “Courtiers,” is out in the UK on Thursday.  In an excerpt published in the Daily Mail, Low writes about Prince Harry and Prince William’s rift. Harry declined a crisis meeting with William in 2019, Low reports.  Loading Something is loading. The Duke of Sussex declined to meet … Read more

New book reveals palace staff’s nasty name for Meghan Markle

New book reveals palace staff’s nasty name for Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle was a “narcissistic sociopath” who was plotting her royal exit from the outset, her former staff contended in a bombshell new book. Sources told author Valentine Low, who wrote “Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown,” that staff members coined the epithet for the Duchess of Sussex, according to a report in The … Read more