Hollywood, Apartheid and Rugby Union – it really shouldn’t work. But check out the spine-tingling trailer for Invictus, Clint Eastwood’s Oscar shoo-in, out later this year.

Just finished Nick Cave’s fabulous new book, “The Death of Bunny Munro”. Cave is clearly so-much more than just another celebrity writer and in Munro, he has created a tragic, funny, grotesque anti-hero. The Bunny Munro website is well-worth checking out to see Cave reading extracts from the book and get the chance to win the bunny suit from the front cover.

The concept is simple. Beck gets a bunch of his music mates around and reinterprets a classic album over the course of a day. Then he gets long-time collaborator Nigel Godrich round to tart it up and posts it on his site, along with some suitably low-fi videos.

Leonard Cohen and The Velvet Underground have got the treatment so far.

One of the highlights (quite literally) of our recent trip to New York was our pre-dinner Saturday evening stroll along the High Line, the former railway line which has been transformed in to a stunning above-street garden.

Fab views of the city and the river and generating a real buzz in this already great part of town.