In brief: Scarlett hits out at sexism

Scarlett Johansson is only 23 but she is worried about the future. The star of The Girl With A Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation has joined the string of actresses to complain about Hollywood’s treatment of older women. "Women kind of wilt as men sort of achieve as they get older, like wine or whatever," she tells Hello! magazine. "It's like, 'Oh, she's past her prime and she can't play a sex symbol." Not quite as good, maybe, as the way Sharon Stone, 50, once put it: "I went to the Oscars, it was like, 'Oh, there's been an archaeological dig and look what we've found, a 40-year-old' "... But it's never too young to be wed. Peaches Geldof, the 19-year-old daughter of 'Save the World' Sir Bob, has revealed that she has secretly married one Max Drummey, a 23-year-old Harvard anthropology graduate who sings with a Boston-based rock band called Chester French, in Las Vegas. They met little over a month ago. Peaches, daughter of the late Paula Yates, who died after an accidental drugs overdose, is returning to Britain while Drummey continues with Chester French's tour in the US, leaving some uncharitable observers to wonder if the whole thing is a publicity stunt to help the little-known band... In Italy, Sandro Bondi, the culture minister, has upset his constituency. "I struggle to find evidence of beauty in contemporary art. If I go to an exhibition I pretend to understand like many others. But, honestly, I don't understand," he tells Grazia. Francesco Bonami, a curator who has run the Venice Biennale, roars back: "Bondi appears to have fallen asleep in 1895. You cannot rely on an antiquated concept of beauty; that's like wanting to go back to the horse and cart"… The spectacular Scottish home of the Italian American composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who died last year, is for sale at £15 million. Yester House, with 500 acres in the Lammermuir Hills, has been called one of Scotland's best-kept secrets and may set a price record for a Scottish house. Menotti, who won two Pulitzer prizes, wrote his first opera before the age of 11 and bought Yester in the 1970s. It had been "a beloved family retreat for many years", says his son, Francis...