"I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city," Winslet observes of New York's inhabitants, "and I think: 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think: 'They can't be happy in those heels.'" I'm sure they aren't — but beauty has little overlap with comfort for too many women.

Being a guy, Keanu Reeves gets to wear comfortable clothes even to red-carpet events. But he's still got something bugging him.

Thankfully, he doesn't have to worry any more about charges of trying to run over a paparazzo — he was just cleared. Now, though, he's speaking out about how miserable he is about his smoking habit.

Keanu made it three decades without smoking, before having to light up for a part. And he hasn't stopped since. "It was an outcome of having to smoke on a film," he explains. "I got hooked making a film, 'Feeling Minnesota'. I didn't start smoking until I was 30. Now I'm just in prison." Gook luck kicking the habit, Keanu.

No more good luck wishes needed for Obama, now that he's just been elected the next US president. Most Americans are over-joyed that they're finally going to have someone decent in the White House — and those that think about the rest of the world are pretty glad not to be a global standing joke any more.

Tinseltown isn't really known for being quiet about political matters — celebs seem happy to lend their fame to their favourites come election time — but, despite Arnold Schwartzenegger and Ronald Reagan seguing from film to political office, other stars are more circumspect about that kind of career-change.

Clint Eastwood was mayor of a small Californian town in the '80s, but it's not an experience that encouraged any presidential ambitions in him.

"I enjoyed being Mayor of Carmel," says the legendary Clint, "but you do see that it is very difficult to get things done. You just have to lose your soul. You have to bulls..t people. You have to deal with people you don't care for and will never be friends with, so you kind of sell yourself out to be a politician. You have to kiss it up with the world. That ain't my style."

Hmm, I would have thought that Hollywood required more than a little kissing-up to people you hate, actually.

More genuine celeb sentiments — in next week's Bitch and Famous!