LIAM NEESON walks slowly into the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills like a man who is in something of a fog.

IN justifying his decision in 2007 to enter government Green Party leader John Gormley cited advice given to him during coalition negotiations by Mary Harney, a woman who at that stage had been a senior minister for 10 years (and who had been a junior minister earlier in her career).

Beyonce Knowles is busy planning an intimate New York wedding, after she and fiancé Jay-Z agreed to wed.

Jennifer Aniston is busy denying she has rebounded from Brad Pitt to another actor, Vince Vaughn.