Nick does a pretty decent “I am a bear” actFor some bizarre reason, Nick Nolte keeps turning up in my dreams, to ask how business is going. It seems Nick has a daughter in the book business in Germany. She’s in sales. Anyway, there I was in some ancien …

The better half of Salt (Cambridge Division) has been away filming an author in Paris, sampling Lebanese soups in some arrondisement and drinking imported VB, the Melbourne beer, in an Australian bar till two in the morning. Meanwhile, at about two in …