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SIGNS are that the Daily Express is locked in a weather war with its tartier stablemate the Daily Star.

The Express kicks things off with 75 degrees.

The Star has 77 degrees – and it is an “EXCLUSIVE”:

The Express raises that to 81 degrees –  but that is NOT an exclusive.

The Daily Mirror saw that 81 and raised it to 82 degrees.

And it gets hotter, as Nathan Rao writes in the Express:

The latest long-range forecasting models indicate record temperatures for much of May, with the mercury likely to hit a sizzling 90F within a month.

It’s getting hotter in the tabloids…

Director Zack Snyder gave us our first glimpse of Ben Affleck as Batman via twitter! He snapped this pic on set. Being a director, Zack gave plenty of detail about the shot. RELATED: Ben Affleck remains unphased by Batman criticism.

Zack tweeted:

I shot this with my @Leica_Camera M Monochrom. #Batman #Batmobile #Gotham http://imgur.com/3hRU6px pic.twitter.com/p5DEf6fLzJ

Ben is looking like a pretty buff Batman, isn’t he? Certainly more buff than Christian Bale’s version. That is one COOL Batmobile. I’m a geek: I’m not ashamed to admit it :D. I can’t BELIEVE we have to wait until next year to see this! It’s due out July 2015. I Will Be There. Will you?

Photo Courtesy of Zack Snyder

The wedding date has been set for George Clooney and his gorgeous (and brilliant!) fiance Amal Alamuddin!

It looks like Hollywood’s newest power couple are planning to get married in Quebec, Canada on September 20, 2014. The couple are apparently planning to keep the ceremony and reception “small,” although when you’re dealing with two people who are at the top of the field in their respective careers, “small” probably doesn’t mean the same thing to them as it does to me!

And if you’ve been waiting for the details of George’s proposal to Amal, get ready! According to sources, “George … 

cooked a meal himself for Amal at home on April 22, then he surprised her by getting down on bended knee and presenting her with the ring. He was so happy she accepted, he was calling friends with the news later that night.” 

Aw, that’s seriously so sweet! After seeing Kanye West’s mega-proposal to Kim Kardashian, it’s  nice to know that some celebrities still appreciate having an intimate, private moment with their beloved.

Photos via Fame Flynet.

MANUEL Pelligrini might looks like an accountant apprising a new Jaguar car, but it turns out that he’s a pretty good football manager. His Manchester City have won the Premier League title and League Cup in his first season in charge. So. Time to see what the media experts said of the Chilean:

Martin Samuel (Daily Mail)

Manuel Pellegrini is going to be the new manager of Manchester City. And right there is the reason why Manchester United’s appointment of David Moyes was so important for English football.

A coach who has won nothing in Europe, not even in the season when he spent £200million on four players at Real Madrid, will now occupy one of the prime jobs in the Premier League.

So. Who did Samuel says City should have opted for? No, not his mate Harry Redknapp.

Pellegrini enters the English game as Roberto Mancini did, at the top. He served his apprenticeship at clubs in South America, beyond our gaze, so all we have is received information. British managers play every match in the public eye. We know every mistake, each little failure. We know that Alan Pardew struggled at Charlton Athletic and his success at Newcastle United was not maintained. So it counts against him.

Alan Pardew.

Pellegrini… moved to Malaga, who finished fourth backed by the wealth of Sheik Abdullah Al Thani and another significant spending spree of more than £50m. Is this so much greater than Pardew taking Newcastle to fifth in the Premier League in a year when many had them down for relegation?

Any City fans wants to swap?

Adrian Durha (talkSPORT):

Hilarious that City fans are saying Pellegrini is the right appointment because “he’s better than Moyes.”

— Adrian Durham (@talkSPORTDrive) June 14, 2013

Ha-ha!

Dave Kidd (Daily Mirror)

Manchester City face a struggle to catch Chelsea in title race because Manuel Pellegrini is nothing Special

Pretty soon, the Blue Moonies at the Etihad will be asking: Why Manuel Pellegrini when City could have had the Special One?

That’s chippy Jose Mourinho, by the way. Kidd says the One’s skill enabled him make the best trasnfers:

Chelsea bought back Nemanja Matic from Benfica, for £20million more than they’d originally got in selling him, with Mourinho recognising a quality defensive midfielder – and not a striker – as his missing link.

Or as Jose said in May:

“We don’t have the kind of striker able to, in a short space, to make an action, to score a goal, to open the gate.”

 

Chris Wheeler (Daily Mail):

There is a similarity between Pellegrini’s season at the Bernabeu and his first at City. An avalanche of goals, football to please the eye but, ultimately, little to show for it.

Such are the facts…

She was only born a few weeks ago, but the brand new daughter for Rachel Stevens has already made it into the pages of a magazine. Rachel and her husband, Alex Bourne, have introduce their baby girl Minnie Blossom to the world in an exclusive interview with OK magazine and reveal private details of the relaxed five-hour labour.

She is currently making her debut in a Hollywood blockbuster after a a slew of successful Indie films.

MANCHESTER City are Champions. Doubtless a few City fans will be weeping tears of joy. Dewey-eyed Liverpool supporters are wondering how it all went wrong. And fans of relegated clubs will be weeping for their loss. The trick is to do your emoting in the bosom of your brothers and sisters in misery or joy. Never let the enemy see your tears. If you do, you will look weak and pathetic. They will point and deride you – just as all fans should mock players who bawl their eyes out on the pitch when they lose.

Here’s a test: do you look at pictures of John Terry crying because his Chelsea didn’t win and:

a) roll your eyes

b) beam

c) laugh

d) feel a whole lot better about your own team’s defeats and sleep like a baby

When you saw this photo of John Terry crying when The Blues lost the Champions’ League final in 2008, did you:

a) look away

b) laugh

c) laugh hard

d) really laugh very hard

What about when Luis Suarez sobbed after Liverpool tossed away the Premier League title at Crystal Palace?

Did you:

a) feel upset

b) pray that someone went up and whispered ‘negrito’ in his ear

c)  laugh your head off

d)  Tweet “It was nice to see Suarez in tears at the end. I like that because he’s a blatant cheat” (Noel Gallagher) and sing a filthy song about his sister?

Answers:

Mostly as) You are a fan of the sobber’s club, Jeremy Kyle or the Dalai Lama.

Mostly bs)  You are a rational and sane human being.

Mostly cs) You are a football fan who can remember the sport before games ended with an M People-driven compilation video and when players’ children never entered the field of play.

Mostly ds) You are a true fan, one who has never supported a ‘second club’, worn a jester’s hat to the match, who finds watching your team’s nemesis reduced to tears a moment of unbridled joy and who only watches a rival club playing in a Cup final on the chance that the cameras will pick up their fans crying their eyes out in defeat.

Watching the opposition reduced to tears is, short of victory, pretty much as delicious as it gets. Your job, as a true fan, is to think up a chant that really rubs raw chilli into their wet eyes.

THE Guardian has a fine reputation for making errors. This week, the paper of record for life in Islington and some parts of Camden Town says Glasgow is the capital of Scotland.

@Louisemac spotted the gem.

PHILIPPE Petit Is talking to the New York Times about his new book  Creativity: The Perfect Crime. It begins:  “Make no mistake. I frown upon books about creativity.”Is talking to the New York Times about his new book  Creativity: The Perfect Crime. It begins:  “Make no mistake. I frown upon books about creativity.”

 Most books on creativity are written by an author who references all the great creators of humanity — very often Einstein, the Beatles. They’re not drawing from themselves, and these books are usually in the self-help department. And very often, at the end of a chapter, they have an exercise for you to do. I don’t frown upon them; let’s be frank, I hate them.

On his wire-walking:

…two years ago in Washington Square Park. I put a little rope between two trees, and I improvised. If a leaf fell from a tree, I’d stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

Philippe Petit with the Best Documentary award, received for Man on Wire, at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles. Date: 22/02/2009

On gadgets:

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don’t smell, you don’t hear, you don’t touch anymore. All our senses are being controlled. At the same time, I am a total imbecile because to have a little iPhone that can take pictures, that can find the nearest hospital, that can tell you the weather in Jakarta — it’s probably fabulous…

He famously walked between the roofs of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in 1974:

When I first touched the twin towers, I looked up, and I realized my dream was shattered. I will never, never, never be able to walk up there. I will never be able to bring a ton of equipment up there in secret. But at that moment, the fact that it was impossible was the whip that I needed to start working on it.

… those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that’s why I married them with a tight rope.

Walking on a high wire is inherently dangerous, but you’ve said that you prepare so much that death is not a risk. No, it’s not. I think this is very wrong to put your life in danger or to gamble with your life. I cannot do the first step not being absolutely sure that I will successfully perform the last.

 

You can see how Petite performed the incredible here.

Spotter: Afflictor

IT’S ok to kill the enemy so long as you don’t give a thumbs up over the corpse. What else are we to make of news that two members of 51 Squadron RAF regiment have been captured on camera posing alongside the body of a dead Taliban fighter killed during a prolonged attack on Camp Bastion? The fighting saw two US Marines and 14 of the 15 Taliban on the raid killed. The 15th was detained. Eight British soldiers were wounded.

Is taking the photographs “inappropriate”? The RAF spokeswoman uses that political buzzword in her statement:

 “Inappropriate actions will not be tolerated in the armed forces; the RAF is treating this incident extremely seriously, and has launched a military police investigation. As this incident is subject to an ongoing investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.”

 

The Times recalls that in November 2013, Royal Marine Sergeant Alexander Blackman, a Royal Marine was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering an injured Taliban. But to us these photo brings back memories of the abuse US soldiers dished out to detained Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison.

It’s the jovial, up-beat thumbs-up sign. Its use in the context of a dead human being is suggestive of an unhinged mind, a sadistic twist on happiness.

The above is a picture of Crpl. Charles A. Graner Jr. posing next to a detainee who died during interrogation in late 2003 at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. The Army reservist from Uniontown, Pa.,was sentenced to serve 10 years for stacking naked prisoners into a pyramid, knocking one of them out with a punch and ordering prisoners to perform sex acts while other soldiers took pictures in 2003.

Graner was paroled from the US military’s Fort Leavenworth prison on August 6, 2011 after serving six-and-a-half years.

Others were also charged and jailed.

Lynndie England pointing to a naked prisoner being forced to masturbate in front of his captors.

It’s not inappropriate to give a happy thumbs-up over the body of a dead man. It’s criminally insane.