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/li> 0 shares 0 comments A million dollars: Carey Mulligan plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Carey Mulligan was draped in precious gems worth millions of pounds during the making of The Great Gatsby film — and a security guard watched her every move. ‘I would be doing a scene, wearing these fabulous jewels from Tiffany’s worth many, many millions,’ Carey told me, during an exclusive interview at the Plaza Hotel in New York. ‘There’d be diamond bracelets on each arm, and diamond earrings, and rings, and strings of pearls around my neck. And I could see this guy in the corner watching me intently, in case I ran off with anything.’ In Baz Luhrmann’s sumptuous new 3D screen version of  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age  literary classic, Carey plays the selfish golden girl Daisy Buchanan. Daisy embarks on a dangerous love affair, under the nose of her husband, with ridiculously wealthy Jay Gatsby, played by Leonardo Di

/li> 253 shares 0 comments Katherine Boo's award-winning novel will be transformed onstage The National Theatre is to stage a spectacular, true-life Slumdog Millionaire play, set in a squalid backwater of Mumbai. Award-winning playwright David Hare has adapted Katherine Boo’s acclaimed, prize-winning non-fiction book Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity. It will be staged in the National Theatre’s Olivier auditorium in autumn 2014 by director Rufus Norris, using all the behind-the-scenes firepower the NT can muster to bring the swarming, stinking slum scattered around Sahar international airport in Annawadi to bustling, vibrant life. It’s a staggering undertaking, but the NT has proven — particularly under the reign of artistic chief Nicholas Hytner — that it wants to develop dangerous, edgy, challenging fare. Indeed, the NT’s board has made it clear that they want Hytner’s successor in 2015 to deliver more of the same.

/li> 0 shares 4 comments Michelle Williams has been asked to play U.S. Navy ensign Nellie Forbrush Michelle Williams has been asked to wash that man right out of her hair in a new big-screen version of the landmark musical South Pacific. The actress, who appeared in the recent Disney hit Oz The Great And Powerful, has been offered the role of U.S. navy ensign Nellie Forbush, the hick from Little Rock nursing injured sailors and soldiers in the New Hebrides Islands during World War II. Michelle, 32, sang during a scene in the 2011 movie My Week With Marilyn. We met several times during that year’s awards season and she told me she was attracted by the idea of doing a full-blown film musical, saying the singing and dancing would be ‘liberating’. Nominated for an Oscar three times for performances in Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine and director Simon Curtis’s Marilyn movie, Michelle has the quality and skill to play Nellie with aplomb. It’s early days. The plan

/li> 6 comments The character Malcolm Tucker, from the BBC Four series 'The Thick Of It' Alastair Campbell has rounded on the brilliant satirist Armando Iannucci for accepting an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. ‘So @Alannucci OBE joins the Establishment he claims to deride. Malcolm Tucker and I do not approve of honours system,’ he twittered. Tucker (pictured) is, of course, Iannucci’s hilarious, foul-mouthed creation from BBC2’s The Thick Of It, quite clearly based on Alastair Campbell. But is Campbell quite so anti-Establishment and anti-honours as he claims? A trawl through recent published diaries and other documents by himself and others suggests not. Believe it or not, these are all accurate quotations, and not, as you might think, the product either of Iannucci’s imagination, or, indeed, my own: 1 ‘Soames then said he “wanted out”. Asked me to ask Alastair to get Blair to make him ambassador in Paris — “it’s mine by descent . . . etc.”’

/li> 13 comments Love him or hate him: DJ Chris Moyles is a controversial Radio 1 personality Young people today don’t know how lucky they are. They imagine that Chris Moyles is as bad as it gets. So it is up to us old dogs to remind them that in the 1970s and 1980s, Radio 1 was filled to the brim with disc-jockeys like Simon Bates, Gary Davies, Mike Read and Bruno Brookes, all blessed with the rare ability to spout self-regarding gibberish for hours on end.  But one of them was, it is widely agreed, even more irritating than the others. Some time between DDT (Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane) and BLT (Bacon Lettuce Tomato) came DLT: Dave Lee Travis. DLT, known as ‘the Hairy Cornflake’, dominated Radio 1 in the 1970s and 1980s. He also made frequent appearances on Top Of The Pops and Celebrity Squares, generally waving a lot and sporting an unusual badger-streak in his hair. Unlike most Radio 1 DJs, he never managed to develop a stable of catchphrases, though a nov

/li> 3 comments Adding some glamour: Fashion guru Gok Wan will judge the badminton 1. The first voices to be heard in the official opening ceremony to the 2012 Olympics will be Dame Vera Lynn and former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten, duetting on a new version of the 1970s hit Do You Wanna Be In My Gang?, freshly arranged by Andrew Lloyd Webber. 2. To liven up some of the duller events — badminton, water polo, weightlifting — a celebrity panel will offer critical and amusing comments before awarding the contestants their final points. ‘I’m sorry, my love, but we’re all agreed that watching other people play badminton is nearly as tedious as playing it yourself,’ says Gok Wan, the style guru charged with ‘livening up’ these events. ‘So we’re injecting a bit of old-fashioned fun and glamour into the yawnathon, dear.’ The final panel will not be revealed until the opening ceremony, but is rumoured to consist of tough-talking business mogul Lord Alan Sugar, iconoclastic shoppi

/li> 4 comments Ask Nancy! London's favourite Italian gives her advice on moving house Dear Nancy, My partner and I have been sharing a flat for ten years. We have been talking of moving house. Is this a good time to make the move, and, if so, what’s the best way to go about it? Sheila, Dulwich. NANCY SAYS: The very better way to moving house is to tell your boyfriend to going out the door in front of you, then you shut it and lock it behind him. Now the flat is all belong to you! Throw his clothes out the window and tell him to find somewhere else to live! That will teach him to make his lady go through the door first! These English men, they do not understand the language of love! It is quite sad really. Dear Nancy, How do I arrange parking bay suspension for the removals vans? Mary, Salford. NANCY SAYS: All the British trafficking wardens, they so sweet, they very in love with Nancy! Wherevering I park — on road, on pavement, in front of local fire station —