SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell has thrown the first punch in a fight to knock Rocky star Sylvester Stallone off the top of London's themed restaurant rankings.
She was in Piccadilly yesterday to mark the start of building work on Europe's first Fashion Cafe. The restaurant, due to open this summer, will be the latest in a global chain of Fashion Cafes being set up by Naomi and fellow catwalk stars Claudia Schiffer, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington.
The Coventry Street site is across the street from the London branch of Planet Hollywood, the successful cinema theme restaurant opened by Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kevin Maxwell has failed to stop publication by HarperCollins of a novel he argued portrays his late father, the media baron Robert Maxwell. He had asked the British Attorney General to ban the book because it could prejudice his chances in a pending fraud trial.
Jeffrey Archer's novel, The Fourth Estate, is a fictional account of the rivalry between two media giants. It is widely assumed to be about Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. The novel, which will be officially released today, has already sold 268.000 hardback copies in advance.
Rupert Murdoch has won government approval in New South Wales to open an A$121 million (£64 million) 20th Century Fox studio at Sydney's historic showground site, but local residents have vowed to fight the decision.
The Swedish drama director Ingmar Bergman has cancelled plans at the last minute to stage Moliere's comedy Le Misanthrophe in New York early this summer. The play was due to open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June.
The Coronation Street star who plays Jack Duckworth says he might consider leaving the show if the pressures of appearing in an extra episode a week become too much. Bill Tarmey, who plays the landlord of the Rovers Return, said he was not looking forward to four episodes of the soap every week.
Weeks of speculation about the dates for the Oasis summer tour rumoured to be the biggest yet - are set to be put to rest by an announcement today. The hottest tips are for outside gigs at Loch Lomond, Scotland, and Knebworth in the first weekends of August.