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And they call Britons cynical. The New York Post is raising its eyebrows at reports over the weekend that Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes saw an accident on a Los Angeles freeway and waited with the driver until an ambulance arrived. They point out that Cruise's people regularly report on the star's selfless heroics: helped catch a runaway horse (2003), intervened in a London street mugging (1998), called ambulance in a hit-and-run (1996), rescued family from life raft (1993). A spokesman maintains that the LA incident definitely happened.

Sincere congratulations to people out there still watching Lost on Channel 4. You have reached a spiritual level where nothing can harm you. As Confucius almost said in the Lun Yu: "Yu, I shall instruct you about Lost. To acknowledge what is known as known and what is not known as not known is Lost." Or as Daniel Dae Kim said this week: "I think for every question that's answered, there's another one that's posed, and that's kind of what keeps people coming back." He and other cast and crew members were discussing what might happen in season three, yes, for the love of God, season three. The hatch and underground bunker will not feature and we get to spend more time with The Others. Cast members including Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Terry O'Quinn (Locke) and Josh Holloway (Sawyer) were launching the complete season two DVD in Hawaii.

It was 1970 and the fifth round of the FA Cup, Northampton Town against Manchester United, but it was George Best's awesome performance that people remember. He scored six goals and his marker, Roy Fairfax, said "the closest I got to him was when we shook hands after the game". Now Christie's is to auction Best's shirt from the day on September 13, with an estimate sale price of £20-30,000. Also for sale will be the shirt of bandit-moustached Rivelino from the 1970 World Cup final and the shirt from Bobby Moore's last ever match - Fulham v Blackburn Rovers on May 14 1977. None of the items are expected to surpass the £157,750 paid four years ago for the shirt of Pele from the 1970 World Cup final.

Johnny Depp is to play the demon barber of Fleet Street in a Hollywood version of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd, it was announced yesterday. The project will reunite Depp with director Tim Burton - they have worked together on several films including Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It should be on our screens at the end of 2007 and Depp will do his own singing.