Viscount Cowdray's daughter is put off marriage after her divorce from Ned Rocknroll "He's here to eat the food," Oldman told me. He's most excited about the dinner because he is 15 and eats all the time. Acting does not appear to have any great appeal to the teenager. "He's more of a dancer," Oldman explained. He's got the moves, like his father. Maybe I should tap dance in my next film? I'd do it well. No doubt that would have Gulliver looking up from his dinner. Downing effect With the genius for good public relations that seems to characterise the modern Conservative Party, its association membership service did a mailshot last week asking for donations. "Conservative Members - the key to Number 10," it states enticingly, in big, bold type at the top of the letter. Philip Smith, the chairman of Conservative Association Membership Services, was not to know his missive would be dropping on people's doormats on the same day that the issue of donations and access to Downing Street would be making the headlines in The Daily Telegraph. Lost in translation James Corden may be confident that One Man, Two Guvnors will be a Broadway hit when it transfers, but his co-star Oliver Chris isn't so sure. He confides: "James is renting, but I'll be in a hotel in case the humour doesn't translate."