When Actresses Jump On The Anti-iraq Bandwagon,

As A Child, I Wanted Only Two Things - To Be Left Alone To Read My Library Books, And To Get Away From My Provincial Hometown And Go To London To Be A Writer. And I Always Knew That When I Got There, I Wanted To Make Loads Of Money.

What I Find Most Upsetting About This New All-consuming Beauty Culture Is That The Obsession With Good Looks, And How You Can Supposedly Attain Them, Is Almost Entirely Female-driven.

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.

As I Get Older I Think, Contrary To Modern Assumption But In Line With The Old Lerner And Lowe Song, That It Would Actually Benefit Both Them And Society If - To Quote Professor Higgins - A Woman Could Be More Like A Man.

May I Just Single Out For Salutations, On The "anti-war" Side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism And Jugglers For Genocide. All Of Them United Under That Flaccid Flag Of Convenience, Show-offs For Saddam.