August 11 – California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger hit City College in the Bronx for a ceremony marking the name-change of the “Inner City Games” program to “The After School All Stars”. Apparently, as a political candidate, Arnie can’t risk finding later that the program’s inner city beneficiaries were playing athletic games while they should have been in class. Backstage, the tykes looked confused when the Terminator told them to “say no to violence”. Arnold tried to leave ‘em with thunder, ending his speech with “Hasta la vista, baby”, but it backfired – he had to stick around to present the award, a bicycle, to a lucky kid. Meanwhile, the governator has become adept at the game of politics - he later power-lunched at the Four Seasons Restaurant with Republican Party contributors.

That evening, the Casablanca family gathered at Lincoln Center to celebrate the classic film’s 60th anniversary. Lauren Bacall nodded at the speck of red carpet and deadpanned, “The carpets, they’ve gotten so small”. Stephen Bogart and Pia Lindstrom (he’s the son of Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, she’s Ingrid Bergman’s daughter) insisted that there was never an affair between Bogey and Bergman. “They were very professional. That’s what good acting looks like”, they said. Isabella Rosselini, another Bergman daughter, recalled that on a visit to Harvard University in the 1960s, her mother was shocked that the students knew all the lines from the circa 1942 Casablanca.

On a more modern classic, HBO’s Sex and the City, Samantha will take a tumble on a future episode. We're not clairvoyant - we stumbled upon Kim Catrall shooting the scene with hunky costar Jason Lewis.