And what's more . . .

The Royal Academy's Conversations with Artists series opens with the film director Pedro Almodovar on 13 April (tickets on 071-494 5712) . . . 'I never degrade my women and I can never understand why so-called drag queens do': the female-impersonator Danny La Rue . . . An autograph Marilyn Monroe wrote on a scrap of paper has sold for pounds 2,090 at Bonhams . . .