Pandora: Nunn's turkey ready for revival

It appears Sir Trevor Nunn's disastrous musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind will not be consigned to a muddy grave just yet.

The multi-million pound production, which starred the singer Darius Danesh, closed in June after just three weeks at the New London theatre. After a critical panning, it's now widely considered one of the biggest turkeys of modern theatre.

Nunn insists, however, that opinions in the Far East have been quite different. The revered director tells me that he has just returned from a trip to Asia, where the prospect of a revival sparked considerable interest.

"It's funny – it came in for so much criticism here but over there people loved it. I got a lot of praise," he tells me. "There has been a lot of discussion about the possibility of taking a production over there. Nothing has been agreed but there has been a lot of talk. Put it this way: I've been in the same room as people discussing it."

While the prospect of a revival will no doubt cheer cast members left out of a job when the production closed, they would do well to keep in mind that any revival is unlikely to bear too close a resemblance to the London show.

"If we did decide to go ahead with it, there would be differences: it would be bigger, much more spectacular," says Nunn. "And who knows, from there it could go to the US and then maybe come back here."

Boateng: Bond suits a stitch-up

Ozwald Boateng, self-proclaimed "bespoke couturier" of Savile Row, has waded into the argument over James Bond's choice of tailor.

Two weeks ago, I reported that celebrity outfitter Tony Lutwyche was not best pleased that producers of Bond's latest outing, Quantum Of Solace, had chosen to have his threads made by super-smooth American designer, Tom Ford.

Now Boateng is also spitting feathers.

"It should absolutely be a British tailor," he tells me. "I mean, Tom's great and everything, and so are his designs in the film, but it should be Savile Row tailor.

"James Bond's an English institution and so is Savile Row – they belong together.

"They should ask me, I'd love to do it. I've thought about it quite a lot and I'd jump at the chance. I'd nail it."

While we are nitpicking, my resident Bond aficionado informs me that Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, never actually specified that 007's suits were created on "The Row". But I think we'll just let that slide for now.

Ritchie Snr parties in style

Guy Ritchie's father John isn't letting his son's impending divorce spoil his fun.

Ritchie, who last week said he was "pleased" the marriage of his son to Madonna was heading for the divorce courts, threw a lavish 80th birthday bash last Saturday in London's Chelsea Arts Club.

We owe this revelation to the ever-discreet Stanley Johnson, who has penned the My Week column in the latest issue of Country Life.

"Shireen Ritchie, John's wife, made a very touching speech," he writes.

"When the Soprano Melinda Hughes came out from behind the curtain to sing Gluck's famous aria 'Che Faro Senza Euridice?', there wasn't a dry eye in the house."

Campbell leaves Blair blushing

Alastair Campbell's new novel All In The Mind has already picked up one heavyweight critic.

Campbell's former master, Tony Blair, apparently reckons the tome is too raunchy.

"He said he enjoyed it, but that it was wall-to-wall sex and asked me if I was comfortable with my children reading all that sex," Campbell says.

"I was interested to hear his opinion – after all he is a great friend of mine – but I don't think there is too much sex in it at all."

Who knew Tony "five times a night" Blair was so prudish?

Rod Faces return from retirement

Rod Stewart has announced he and Ronnie Wood are planning to reform their former band, The Faces. No doubt the move will bring them a tidy windfall. Wood is facing a costly divorce from his wife Jo after he eloped with a 20-year-old Russian girl. Stewart is also feeling the pinch. When I ran into him at the 10th anniversary of Claridge's Bar on Tuesday night, I asked him if the current crisis had hit him in the pocket. "Yeah, course it has," he sniffed ruefully.

No rain on Snow's parade

Channel 4's not wholly-impartial newsreader Jon Snow isn't letting the current swathe of stories about the oncoming recession get him down.

"Am I depressed at the moment? No way," he told me cheerfully at a party at the Natural History Museum.

"I've just got back from Obama – I'm on top of the world right now. I'm in creation mode."

pandora@independent.co.uk