Faith healer
Mitch Albom is the picture of American health. His skin glows, his dark-brown eyes twinkle and his thick thatch of black hair springs away from his scalp with uncontrollable vigour. All of this despite the fact that he is just off an overnight flight from his home in Detroit. His wife is still asleep upstairs (she travels with him on his press trips) and he is wearing what can only be described as daytime pyjamas -- a grey T-shirt and navy trousers -- and heartily slurps his coffee between enthusiastic bouts of conversation.
Apocalypse wow!
For a society so worried about the state of the planet, we seem to get a perverse thrill out of seeing it destroyed for fun. That, at least, is the theory those in the entertainment business seem to be working off at the moment.
The loneliness of the Far0e-away manager
Former Ireland football manager Brian Kerr now coaches the Faroe Islands squad, and just in case we weren't aware what this comedown meant, reporter Darren Frehill informed us at the outset of Away with the Faroes (RTE2) that Kerr's new employers constitute "possibly football's worst team", with eight years of "calamitous results" behind them.
Don't stand so close -- Sting in ghostly encounter
Sting has claimed he once confronted a ghost which wandered into his room in the dead of night.
Crosbie keeping the dream alive
THE show must go on should be Harry Crosbie's mantra, especially as he's got €75m riding on it.
The Twilight Zone: Robert Pattinson
ROBERT PATTINSON is going to have to start wearing earplugs in public. When he took on the role of brooding young vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight last year, he was transformed overnight into a teen idol. Now that the sequel, New Moon, is on the cusp of release, the screams from the hordes of adolescent girls who follow his every move are set to be deafening.
