We love Lauren Bacall. After directing some waspish barbs towards Nicole Kidman last year, the woman they call Betty has turned her attentions to that actress's onetime husband, writes Donald Clarke

"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise," she said in an interview with Time magazine. Bacall then went on to muse about the way Cruise's romantic affairs merged with his professional life. "His whole behaviour is so shocking, It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness." You know how to deliver a raspberry, don't you, Tom? You just put your lips together and blow.