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Of cigars and cocktails
Moscow organised an event at the club Reporter, which was but another way of further improving relations between Russia and Cuba. A large crowd of eminent celebrities collected at the opening of Moscow's Castro International Cigar Club. Emitting clouds of smoke and sipping cocktails, the honoured guests spoke of their personal cigar choices. But all agreed on one thing that Cuban cigars are unique in the world.
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Winding road from Wham!
George Michael was not exactly a controversial figure when his dazzling white teeth and big gold earrings first blazed on to the world's screens as the useful half of pop group Wham! Although he allowed Andrew Ridgeley to share the stage and wield a guitar, it was clear that Michael was the one with the talent.
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Nothing to protest about anymore
Sally Alexander is a grandmother and a professor of history, but to many, she will be best remembered for the night she disrupted the 1970 Miss World Contest. The protest had been planned meticulously. Twenty-five women bought tickets, dressed to the nines for the occasion, then waited for a signal -- a football rattle -- before letting rip at compere Bob Hope with flour bombs, stink bombs and water pistols.
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Bookshelf/Shyam Benegal
Film maker Shyam Benegal's initiation into reading started at the age of eight when he lapped up Rabindranath Tagore's The Hungry Stones & other short stories. "After that, it was Nehru's Glimpses of World History and Discovery of India that had the greatest impact on me. Around the same time I also read the Bhagvad Gita in translation," he says.
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