In brief: Madonna like an ‘embarrassing auntie’ at Radio 1 gig
Madonna, who turns 50 in August, was accused by one critic of a "soulless performance" which made her "resemble an embarrassing auntie desperately trying to be hip" when she appeared in concert in Maidstone as part of Radio 1's Big Weekend... British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh is set to receive a £700,000 bonus - equal to his annual salary - despite the humiliating problems surrounding the opening of Heathrow Terminal 5... British actor Ray Winstone, who plays Harrison Ford's sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, opening at the Cannes film festival this week, says of the Hollywood star: "Harrison is a geezer. Pretty straight. Bit introverted. Loves to tell a joke. Doesn't tell 'em well"... A 1954 letter in which Albert Einstein described Judaism as a "childish superstition" is to be sold at auction in London on Thursday... The making of Valkyrie, Tom Cruise's movie about the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, has been blighted with problems, most notably the diminutive actor's unconvincing German accent; now the film's release date has been put back until February 2009 because the makers need to shoot three more scenes that show how Claus von Stauffenberg, played by Cruise, lost his hand and eye... ·














