Our favourite new word describes someone not quite as rich
as an oligarch. The anonymous minigarch (annual income only $50m) having a
particularly good week was the collector who bought Damien Hirst's first
Moscow exhibition in its entirety.
Cheesecake
Along with other 1970s puddings, cheesecake is a national
favourite once more, with sales having risen 46 per cent in the last year.
Baby-boomers evidently want their piece of comfort food.
Royal small talk
Jordan, the model and general eminence, met Prince
Charles and Camilla at the Royal Variety Performance. Camilla claimed that
she was a fan who watched Jordan on I'm a Celebrity and knew all about her
marriage to Peter Andre. HRH also revealed
herself to be a fan of Take That. Groovy.
Black dresses
After 45 years, the Givenchy frock Audrey Hepburn wore in
Breakfast at Tiffany's was sold to a telephone bidder for £467,000 at an
auction last week.
The Hollywood star's beloved potbelly
pig Max has died. He was 19. The Oscar winner, who is 45, owned the
swine for 18 years. It is at this point that we'd normally note that this
has probably been Gorgeous George's longest relationship, if the great man
had not said the very same thing himself.
Lucian Freud
The distinguished artist was last week fingered
for chucking
a roll at the celebtastic(celebrity + fantastic)
Wolseley restaurant. He was upset, apparently, by the fact that a father
was taking photographs of his daughter's 21st birthday supper at a nearby
table. Lovely to see that the 84-year-old Freud is holding on to his child
within.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The President of Iran is in trouble for watching women dancing and
singing in the opening ceremony at the Asian Games in Qatar. Clerics in
his homeland aren't happy. Silly man; does he not know that any show of
joy is a very bad thing?