Sometimes a bloke doesn't have to go very far to hear what's going on in Hollywoodland - particularly when Hollywood comes to England, as Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Megan Fox (apparently) have done to shoot the cinematic version of cult sixties vampire TV show Dark Shadows. Though Eva Green remains the female lead in Burton's latest Gothic indulgence, La Fox was reported to be in the vicinity of England's leafy Hampshire over this last week of shooting just past. To boot, music-mad Depp is said to have been invading the stages of local pubs, where the usual assortment of local and guest bands have found themselves with an unexpectedly famous guest artiste to help them rock the evening away.

You can take this particular bit of tittle-tattle or leave it - it's simply something I heard of today from a colleague who spent the weekend in Hampshire talking to the locals,...