Michelle Pfeiffer is gorgeous - no question. But perhaps not as flawless as she seems. Ordinary mortals see here how her 1990 cover pic for Esquire had to be tweaked.

The Roaring Forties Association was set up to promote sailing “in all forms”. It is not clear whether this was intended to include sailing close to the wind.

Bassa – 24 year old scion of honorary Zulu chief John Aspinall and developer of the controversial Villa Romelia in Llandudno - is being sued by a long list of creditors for non-payment of debts incurred during the renovation of the guest house. When we asked Bassa about the claims against him he told us that his family was very influential, and that that was something we had 'better look into'. Naturally we obliged.

The McDonald's Corporation had no idea what it was getting itself into when it deecided to sue two penniless London activists who had said nasty things about them. At one stage the resulting trial was described as "the best free entertainment in London".

Standard Bank, with its pleasingly conservative blue and white logo and air of stolid respectability, has enjoyed the distinction of never having featured in noseWEEK. But now, while on the subject of financial advisors – incompetents at ABSA, shadies at Old Mutual, dubious dealers at FNB and Syfrets – what’s the standard at Standard?

Whatever else ex-vicar and two-timing adulterer Allan Boesak is alleged to have done with the funds of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, he did attempt to get the Foundation to indirectly finance the construction of a sound studio for his wife, Elna.

Part 2 of the Shepsrone & Wylie forestry saga - including the scheme within a scheme that contributed to the sadness, and the fancy footwork that formed part of the liquidation.

After lots of ducking and diving Old Mutual has finally stumped up R200 000 to Karin Zolty in reimbursement for the money she should have received from her parents' life policies (which were taken over by OM broker Gert Keuler in highly questionable circumstances).

Is there a secret reason for Piet Liebenberg's hasty exit last month from his job as head of the SA Revenue Service? Related, perhaps, to his previous job as a director of ABSA Bank?