Throw a party to remember. When the most glamorous people in the country are holding on to their purse strings for dear life, put them to shame by organising a gala that combines the right elements of philanthropy and page 3 shimmer!

Star cross

So our stars don’t shine so bright after all, he he. Did you see them in their stingy rags! Poor greedy things, I wish I could lend them the paltry amount to put an end to all the hullabaloo, oh what a ridiculous racket! The more you have the more you want! Between the sniggers and snide remarks, educate the few starstruck teenyboppers at the bash about how the proposed ‘star tax’ of 0.25 per cent stamp duty on monetary contracts valued above Rs 1 lakh that performing artistes will have to sign has got the entire Bollywood brigade up in arms. They are crooning the black and white money cry in the wake of the new tax, which is apparently meant to “fleece” the industry that everybody tends to treat as a cash cow.

Well, if paying Rs 25,000 per crore to the state exchequer is getting fleeced, we should probably take pity on them and donate part of our income tax to the industry that is already “reeling” under sundry other taxes! Probably that’s the reason the poverty-ridden industry keeps recycling the same old formula of entertainment year after year, yawn! No silly, it’s all about principles. Just as they are protesting the tax being levied on a service (usually paid on a contract for transfer of physical property), they are probably training to be environment preservation mascots in the future.

Di vs DNA

And the royal soup never stops cooking either. Harry from Hewitt? That’s the question lashing London at the moment as it has been disclosed that the younger prince had to undergo a DNA test to prove his parentage. You cannot really blame poor charmless Charles on this one, considering Diana gave him a lowly one out of 10 between the sheets in the book Diana: The Last Word, whereas the dishy John F. Kennedy Jr got a full 10. James Hewitt, the army officer with whom she confessed to having an affair with and who was believed to be Harry’s father, got no less than nine!