"Go see a straight play and see how you like it." So says actor Richard Schiff from television's West Wing in trying to dissaude theatregoers from only seeing musicals. Why? Because he is starring in a play called Underneath the Lintel on London's West End. It's about Schiff plays a small-town librarian perplexed when a book that is 113 years overdue is returned. Sounds like the kind of thing I'd go and see if I was in London. But I'd see the musicals as well.

I'm not sure if this is appropriate or not, but I can't help wondering whether Sam Moran will be a "real" Wiggle now that he's officially replaced the ailing Greg Page. Will he get the same share of the takings as the other three Wiggles or will he just be an employee on the payroll? I assume Page, as a founding member, will also continue to have a stake in the huge multinational business that is The Wiggles.

As I said on 612ABC with Kelly Higgins-Devine (filling in for Spencer Howson) this morning, the incident at the Walkley Awards ceremony last night does the already embattled reputation of the journalistic profession no favour.

I've met Queensland Premier Peter Beattie a couple of times. I'm not sure if he knows who I am or I just look like somebody he knows or thinks he should know. Whatever the truth of it, he certainly helped me impress a visiting PR person from Sydney today. We organised to meet for coffee at the new State Library and, just after we hooked up, the Premier and his deputy Anna Bligh came wandering past. Mr Beattie looked in my direction and gave me a big wave of acknowledgement. I resisted the temptation to big-note myself to the interstate guest, but I would have been impressed if I was her.

There ought to be a law against public clocks that don't tell the right time. There's one in Roma Street that's been stopped for years and, if I was running the show, I'd make the owners fix it or take it down. AT the very least they could remove the hands.

Is this the non-scoop of the century? I've just received a press release saying Wally Lewis will speak exclusively to Channel 9 news tonight about his mystery illness. Of course he will; he works for Channel 9. It'd be a surprise if he told all to anyone else.
Update: Wally revealed he is epileptic and, of course, he deserves our best wishes.