AT&T will no longer be calling on Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods loses first sponsorship
The company announced Thursday that it would no longer sponsor Woods, according to The Associated Press. AT&T joins Accenture in dropping Woods, who is taking a break from golf to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
AT&T hasn’t used Woods’s image much in advertising, but the company’s logo did appear on his golf bag. Woods has also…
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British columnist Lynn Barber’s memoir, An Education, is about her affair, while she was still in high school, with an older con man. She spent weekdays prepping for Oxford and weekends flying off to European cities with her lover. Barber, who was happy with the movie adaptation of the memoir, says by the time she saw the film it no longer felt like her story.
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Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? is a book like no other. It is composed entirely of questions, some of them are laugh-out-loud funny, others provoke memories of long gone times, while some leave you pondering the meaning of life.
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Reports that Van Morrison had become a father again at 64 resulted from a hoax apparently because the singer’s website was hacked, according to Agence France-Press.
Morrison said in a statement Thursday that the post stating that he fathered a child, George Ivan Morrison III, with wife-manager Gigi Lee was “utterly without foundation.” He doesn’t even know a Gigi Lee.
“Claims were made relating to my personal life in a ’statement’ purporting to come from me,” the statement read. “Once these claims were brought to our attention, they were taken down from the site. The comments … did not come from me.”
The statement was issued on Morrison’s behalf by the Dublin branch of the U.S.-based public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard Inc. Morrison’s Hollywood-based representative, Phil Lobel, told The Associated Press in an e-mail Thursday that the original announcement was based on the hacked website posting and “all those with Van Morrison regret any confusion this may have caused.”
John Saunders, senior partner of the PR firm in Europe, said Morrison doesn’t …
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