Inter-nit Search

Web Surfers Get A Head Start

Is Hollywood up to scratch? Movie lovers and parents with nit-infested kids were the biggest groups among Australian net surfers last month. Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson, head lice, the citizenship test and Transformers 2 were the words and phrases that gained the most searches on Google.

FOOTNOTE: Lice, damned lice and statistics.

King Louis The Umpteenth

Mikhail Gorbachev Plays Bag Gammon

Raisa was the fashion queen, but Gorby's `bagged' the best gig.

Move over Scarlett Johansson - Mikhail Gorbachev is the new face of Louis Vuitton. The former Soviet leader is to appear in an ad campaign with Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi and French actress Catherine Deneuve. Shot by photographer Annie Liebovitz, the ads feature Gorby in a car, with an LV bag at his side and the Berlin Wall in the background. The campaign will hit magazines next month.

FOOTNOTE: I hope he's not scarred by the experience.