"Diva-like conduct is certainly not unusual. You have a lot of egos there, and you have a lot of creative people who think they're more creative than the other." That's what TV historian Tim Brooks said when asked about reports of fights on the set of Grey's Anatomy between actors Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey. He cited incidents in Moonlighting, Desperate Housewives and Charmed.

"The cheques get less and less as the time goes by," Paul Hogan says of the royalties from Crocodile Dundee, his hit film which is being released in a special 20th anniversary DVD. "I think (his wife and co-star) Linda got a cheque a few months ago for $12 - that was exciting, probably from DVD sales in Thailand or something."
Still, it's hard to feel sorry for them.

On 612 ABC this morning, Spencer Howson and I spoke about the spelling of "brekkie" (or is it brekky or breaky?), the strange world of "ready to wear" fashion, non-swearing curse words and the fact that I really do enjoy going to the opera. We also solved the mystery of the newspaper scoop on the Kyle Sandilands-Spencer Howson childhood friendship. More on that last subject on Sunday.

You'd think everyone at Queensland Rail would at least know the names of the stations it services. Not so on the Brisbane suburban network, where a timetable posted at Indooroopilly station advertises trains to "Shornecliffe". They almost got it right.