In brief: shirt for sale (slight bloodstain)

Outfits worn on the American television drama The Sopranos are being sold at Christie's, New York, to raise money for a charity that looks after wounded US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; the sale includes the blood-spattered shirt worn by Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini (pictured), when he was shot... Final-year students at Cambridge University have been asked to compare the lyrics of Amy Winehouse with the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh in an end-of-year practical criticism paper; the Winehouse song in question, Love is a Losing Game, which won an Ivor Novello award last week, includes the lines: "Why do I wish I never played/Oh, what a mess we made/And now the final frame/Love is a losing game"... The new film of Sex and the City, which has finally opened following its world premiere two weeks ago, is "too low on sex" according to a Daily Telegraph review: "A pet dog is the horniest character on the show"... BBC Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, 53, attracted an ungallant complaint from a viewer after wearing a skimpy black dress for a broadcast from Cannes: "The dress is far too short for a lady of her age" said the complainant... Actress Thandie Newton, asked whether she likes Condoleezza Rice, whom she is portraying in the Oliver Stone biopic W, responded: "Uhm .. I er... that's too black and white. I don't see people in terms of good, bad, those polar opposites... But she is an... oh God, I really want to get this right ... she is an incredible example of discipline"...