3AM INFERNAL

Good lord, does the Mirror not pay the 3AM girls or something? (Actuially, it would make sense if they didn't get paid, since there is a smack of a weekly advertising freesheet about their journalism). They clattered along to the BAFTAs last night, and what was their main observation? Was it about the way David Puttnam reduced the entire room to tears talking about his dead father, or praised the current state of the film industry for proving wrong his fears that it would only be a blockbuster, effects heavy future?

No, the 3AM girls were complaining about the freebies:

Whereas your US A-listers might head home with £10,000 of diamond-encrusted watches and tooth-whitening sessions, last night's attendees got, wait for it... a CD, a DVD of a BAFTA-winning film and a set of hair products from Nicky Clarke. Oh, and the official awards brochure. We could hardly contain our excitement...

Maybe the Baftas felt that giving expensive gifts to people who are already incredibly rich was vulgar and disgusting, girls?

Still, if you really want to start an appeal to see if your readers would like to buy some "diamond encrusted watches" for the poor, deprived likes of Mischa Barton, give it a go. See what sort of response you get.

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