John Blake's bringing out a Shilpa Shetty biography in March, I hear - some ex newspaper hack is probably flailing about in a ton of cut...

I am delighted to learn that the world's best writer-interviewer, Duncan Fallowell, is about to deliver to his agent the second book in ...

The excellent New York magazine has a short piece on Norman Mailer and his homosex scenes in his new novel about Hitler’s childhood, The Ca...

I hear that Rowan Atkinson's latest - and mercifully last - Mr Bean film, Mr Bean Goes to France , has been pulled back from release, an...

"The stupid fucking British press have swallowed the lie that I suffer from narcolepsy." Kurt Cobain, Journals .

Cynically put, carbon trading is about buying your green credentials. Rich polluters get to pay their proxies - ie the disadvantaged - to cl...

I have never quite got over a claim in the Guardian back in 2003 that the actress Naomi Watts’ pet dog had to be hospitalised after wolfing...

Hi Madame Arcati Thank you for your email. We have been slightly inundated with emails on this subject so apologies in not replying sooner ...

I am very sorry to learn that the sainted Twiggy - her virginal nimbus has not quite deserted her - is the subject of a horrible attack by t...

Madame Arcati is most flattered to arouse the cerebral curiosity of Prospect magazine (February edition - follow this link ). While to quot...

OK, I’m fallible. I get it wrong occasionally. I recently wrote a rather mean piece about Sue Douglas, former deputy editor of the Sunday Ti...

J Randy Taraborrelli. What a name! I could write an essay just on that name alone (but I’ll keep it brief). First there’s that mysterious J ...