Los Angeles, May 31 – We always wondered about underage stars that hang out at clubs – Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen twins and Avril Lavigne come to mind. Why are they allowed in when regular folks under the age of 21 are turned away at the door? And what do they do there if they can’t order drinks?

The subject came to mind at the premiere of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, whose stars include 12-year-old Jenna Boyd and 17-year-old Blake Lively. Instead of a tent or a party space, the after party was at West Hollywood hot spot Skybar. These perky youngsters looked so, um, adorable bellying up to the bar, and being introduced to the pleasures of nightlife earlier than most of us. Of course, if you had shared a pair of used jeans with three of your friends, you’d probably need a drink, too.

New York, May 31 – Dan Wheldon, who won the Indianapolis 500 auto race over the holiday weekend, was in New York today to bask in the limelight following his victory, and, no doubt, to sign endorsement deals left and right. Wheldon, the first British driver to win the race since 1966, held a press conference at the Hudson Hotel this morning, and then headed out to the street, where he posed on, in and around an Indy racecar. Wheldon told us what he thinks of female Indy 500 racer Danica Patrick: “She’s hot.”

New York, May 30 – The inscrutable world of professional soccer - OK, OK, football - alit in New York City today, in all its global insanity. We Yanks get David Beckham. He’s a celebrity, he does commercials with Beyonce and J. Lo, he endorses products. America is totally with the David Beckham program. But beyond the capitalism, there’s the soccer, er football, football! Sorry. So Englishmen Beckham and Michael Owen are in the U.S. to play an exhibition game against Colombia. (Huh?) Anyway, according to theFA.com, the official site of the England team, both Beckham and Owen proudly represent the mother country by playing for a team in Madrid, Spain. The press conference in a Midtown hotel didn’t shed much light on this, and then we all dashed over to Giants Stadium in Jersey for England’s training session. Um, we think Spain won.

New York, May 21-27 – Lots of interesting things this week that we haven’t gotten to tell you about. The biggest, celebrity-wise, was the American Ballet Theater’s spring gala at Lincoln Center where Sarah Ferguson, plastic surgery queen Joan Rivers and the luminous Natalia Vodianova talked tutus and pirouettes. Who would have thought that tough guy actor Robert De Niro was a ballet fan? Maybe it was the bidding of wife Grace Hightower or business partner Jane Rosenthal, but there he was, but in a suit, no tights.

The next night we found ourselves at another esteemed New York arts hub, the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park, where we were humbled to be in the company of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who received the 13th annual gold medal for photography. Publisher Jann Wenner presented.

While spotting famous folks at Barney’s on Madison Avenue is a daily occurrence, rock star Bono and wife Ali Hewson weren’t shopping on Sunday; they were promoting their eco-friendly clothing line, Edun. And this time it wasn’t a private party, it was while the store was open and full of shoppers.

ABC Carpet and Home also hosted a promotional call this week, from Charles, the Earl Spencer, better known as Princess Diana’s brother. He’s hawking the Althorp Collection, reproduction furniture from his English estate.

If you want to learn how to make money from your name, take a course from the master of the genre, Donald Trump. At an early morning press conference, The Donald launched Trump University, saying that he’d been nurturing the idea for years, and his sold-out stints with the Learning Annex convinced him we’d pay to hear how he does it.