THE Spice Girls are "animals with no style", Vivienne Westwood said yesterday.
Westwood, a British fashion designer of unconventional clothes, once ran a boutique called SEX and dressed the Sex Pistols in bondage gear.
"Those Spice Girls have never had any education. They have never been brought up - they have just been allowed to grow up like animals," she told presenter Carol Smillie's BBC TV chat show Smillie's People.
Sharon Stone (38), famous for her sex scenes in Basic Instinct, cannot find a boyfriend because men are afraid of her "sex-hungry" image. In an interview she said: "I spent most of last year by myself. I went to most black-tie events by myself, which was brave of me."
Air Zimbabwe lost almost Z$1 million (£58,000) this week after it flew two empty planes to and from Cyprus for President Robert Mugabe's state visit, the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper said.
Italian tenor Alvinio Misciano (87), who was a singing teacher of Luciano Pavarotti, was killed in a fall from a window of his home in Milan yesterday. Misciano, an accomplished tenor of the 1950s and 1960s, had apparently suffered a dizzy spell before he lost his balance and plunged to his death.
Tom Hanks, in London for the premiere of That Thing You Do, said of directing his first Hollywood film: "I hardly got any sleep or exercise and ate bad food."
"It was brutal. I was exhausted at the end of filming. As soon as you open the film production office four months before filming starts, you are managing a crisis 18 hours a day," he said.
Frank Sinatra remained in hospital yesterday recovering from a heart attack and his prognosis was still good, his spokeswoman, Susan Reynolds, said. His doctor Red Kennamer had not changed his prognosis from Thursday when the singer was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre. He said Sinatra (81) had suffered "an uncomplicated heart attack".
Reynolds denied a report by NBC news that Sinatra was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Local KNBC television also quoted Sinatra's son Frank Sinatra Jr as denying his father had the disease.