Alan Cumming

Some things from the weekend: May 12

It's been a lounging-in-the-park-reading-the-papers kind of weekend around and about Lipster HQ, and what an educational weekend it has been. Here's some of what we learned.

In the NOTW's Fabulous! magazine (bletch), SJP claims she could "run a marathon in heels", after being forced to sort of admit that shoes are better than sex. In the words of a lolcat, SEX: SHEZ DOIN IT RONG ... Observer Woman goes in-depth on the Tina Fey phenomenon ... If you head to one particular American dentist, he will tattoo Amy Winehouse's face on your gnashers ... Sophie Ellis-Bextor will replace Kate Moss as the face of Rimmel, though no word as to whether they'll ditch that irksome "get the London look!" slogan ... Artist Rachel Whiteread tells the Observer about her role as the "serious" YBA ... Revelation of the weekend: Alan Cumming's ex-boyfriend had "Alan" tattooed above his pubes, but changed it to "Balanced" when they broke up ... Doris Lessing is fed up about winning that pesky Nobel Prize ...