This latest charity compilation of made-over pop hits in an Afro-Cuban style has some routine examples of unimaginative salsa-fication (Wyclef Jean's "Stayin' Alive"), but mercifully they're outnumbered by the more apt transformations of things like Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc", Groove Armada's timbale-rattling "Superstylin'", and Dizzee Rascal's "Holiday", its new Caribbean setting perfectly in line with its vacation theme.

Tim Walker: I blubbed. In fact, as time goes on, I find myself welling up more frequently than ever, or at least since I was a toddler and thought it might get me sweets

For years, velvet has been decidedly passé. Only 'Young Musician of the Year' finalists, Goths partial to a frock coat, astrologers and Sloanes of a certain age still cling to the regal fabric. The last time it was 'le dernier cri' in plush chic was the mid-Nineties, as anyone who attempted to follow fashion back then will recall. A crushed velvet bodycon dress with a sweetheart neckline and, a few years later, a pair of bootcut velvet trousers from Morgan which I believed were indistinguishable from Tom Ford's cult pair for Gucci in 1995, were key features of my teenage wardrobe.

The New York Review Books list of resurrected clasics motors from stength to strength, and here it delivers an explosive find.

It could have been a modern-day Roman feast, with over a thousand of the world's most beautiful people sitting in the Great Room of the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, where Bafta winners and contenders gorged on braised lamb and fluffy port soufflés.

Film star Christian Slater saw these fearsome marine predators close up when he went diving without a cage off a remote island in Fiji. Ian McCurrach hears the intrepid tale

Taking over the asylum

Columbine High: a suburban horror story

British actress Minnie Driver is kicking up a storm in Hollywood. Ivan Waterman talks to her about her new film `Hard Rain'.

He's peaked and troughed more than once in his career, but there are no diminishing returns for Morgan Freeman. He tells Ivan Waterman about his three latest films, one of which may earn him another Oscar nomination. He might just be a Wall Street banker in his tailored blue lounge suit, crisp blue shirt and yellow silk tie. The only clue is the out-of- place gold earrings. But even they kind of make a style statement for Morgan Freeman.

Christian Slater, the actor famous for his film roles in Broken Arrow, Interview with the Vampire and Kevin Costner's Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, was yesterday sentenced to three months in prison for assaulting his girlfriend and a police officer while under the influence of cocaine.

Christian Slater claims to have turned his back on his Hollywood bad-boy image, but the brat-pack actor's behaviour at a party earlier this week suggests that he is living up to his reputation.

Monday sees the video release of The Fugitive, Interview with a Vampire and Outbreak in widescreen format for the first time (Warner Home Video, pounds 12.99 each), and to mark the occasion, we're offering 10 Eye readers the chance to win a set of the three videos.

`The first three songs cleave to the classic Crazy Horse style - long, ragged guitar workouts - but it's poor stuff, even by the shaky standards of Young's recent work'