Life’s not a song any more for Brad Pitt. Recently, when he tried to enter backstage to congratulate Elton John after a show in Paris, the top Hollywood star had an experience he is not likely to forget in a lifetime.

The newly appointed Algerian bodyguards at the gate asked him who he was and why he wanted to meet Jagger. When Pitt tried to explain, they just told him to buzz off.

An utterly embarrassed Pitt just backed off, thinking it too much of an effort to identify himself.

She’s besieged by fans and admirers wherever she goes. In fact, there’s hardly a private moment in Sharon Stone’s life ever since she starred in the nineties megahit. Basic Instinct and became one of showbiz’s most recognisable faces.

Now Stone has adopted a novel strategy. Whenever someone approaches her, she smiles and says, "Yeh, I know what you are thinking. A lot of people like you think I am Sharon Stone. It’s just that I resemble the star. It’s so flattering." The ply, swears Stone, works nine times out of ten!

In the sixties and seventies, she had the world at her feet. In fact, many Hollywood studios said her name was enough to guarantee a hit. But then, curiously, Julie Christie turned her back to films and for almost a decade, went out of news.

Now she’s back playing the starring role in Harold Pinter’s Times Change. But times don’t seem to have changed for Julie Christie. Despite her saying repeatedly this is not her comeback attempt, once again major studios are besieging her with offers.

Which sure must be flattering for the 6o-year-old actress who was born in India, where she grew up on her father’s tea plantations in Assam. She went on to do memorable films like Dr Zhivago, Far From the Madding Crowd and Darling for which she received an Oscar.

Is supermodel Claudia Schiffer strapped for cash or does she just love sharing the same plate at the table? Quite the demonstrative one, she had been seen eating from the same plate newly acquired husband, producer Mathew Vaughn.

In fact, the supermodel has even given up ordering on nights-out. The newly weds are frequently spotted at London’s fancy eatery, Bullocks, sharing an appetising pasta and mineral water.

The spartan diet appears to have worked towards keeping Schiffer ramp-fit. She says she has lost seven kilos in the last six months. Schiffer, who had earlier contemplated retirement is back in demand. Because of her trimmer look, she is once again becoming the pick of international models.

— Newsmen Features