When A Man Wants To

Knowing That The 'sex And The City' Chicks Now Rack Up Almost Two Centuries Between Them, Why Do Some Of Us Fuss And Hiss About A Bit Of Retouching On Their Forthcoming Film Poster?

As A Precocious Teen I Dreamed Of Being Graham Greene. Well, As It Turned Out, I Never Wrote A Great Novel, Sadly, And I Never Converted To Catholicism, Happily, But I Did Do One Thing He Did. That Is, In Middle Age I Moved To A Seaside Town And Got Into A Right Barney With The Local Powers-that-be.

Nicole Kidman In Particular Seems To Bring Out The Butt-kisser In The Sassiest Of Hackettes, As They Ceaselessly Strive To Portray Her As Some Sort Of Cross Between Mother Teresa And Marilyn Monroe.

These Women Whose Antics We Smirk At Good-naturedly In The Pap-traps Put Themselves Out There At Least Partly On Their Beauty; They Are In Showbiz, And Showing What They've Got Is Part Of Their Business As Much As It Is For Male Show-ponies From The Chippendales To George Clooney.

Having 'best Friends' Is - At Least For Me - As Outdated And Small-minded A Concept As The Idea Of 'sunday Best Clothes.'