SHE was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts pounding during World War II, the favourite movie star of a generation of young men long before she’d made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.

RAUL GONZALEZ’S ice-cold precision on the soccer field is no fluke.

Everything from their choice of coffee to the number of pens they used in court was scrutinised for clues – but now the Jackson trial jury have delivered verdicts they are certain to face the cameras to tell all about their decisions.

As the world waits for a verdict in Michael Jackson’s child sex abuse trial the atmosphere outside the courthouse swings between the calm and the surreal.

Eoin English