BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has taken one of the world's most valuable music prizes, Sweden's 1997 Polar Prize.
The sixth annual Polar Prize, worth one million Swedish crowns (£87,430), won jointly by Springsteen and Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson, will be presented by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm in May.
A pornographic short film of Marilyn Monroe has surfaced in Spain and will be shown at a film festival next month, according to festival organiser Mario Prades.
He said the 6 1/2 minute silent film, now owned by an anonymous maker of short films from the town of Manresa, was bought for a few dollars at a Paris flea market in 1977. The grainy black and white footage was made ill 1947 when she was 21 chubbier and without the plastic surgery that helped to make her later image.
Actress Julie Christie says she never wanted children because she did not want them to be unhappy. And she says she is now leaving Britain for good - because she claims the government is destroying the country's heritage.
Ms Christie (56), who stars in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, told this month's Marie Claire magazine lack of parental love and cruel convent nuns made her young years miserable.
Mrs Merton star Caroline Aherne (33) stayed away from ceremony to crown Britain's top secretary because she was busy working on the new series of her popular TV show. Her place at London's Sheraton Park Tower Hotel was taken by Judith Hurd, wife of former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd.