Eat, drink and be merry

How come it's the bankers that get all the stick? That RBS guy's mill in share options - which he has, of course, now foregone - pales next to the greed of three middling Hollywood actors who are asking $15m each for their next movie.

We're talking Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifiniakis and their demand for turning up on The Hangover 3 - if Warner Bros agree to their pay day for indulging in more on screen drinking and debauchery.

Quite a salary hike when you consider the trio got a mere - mere? - $1m for the first film back in 2009.

However, that one went on to gross - and never was there a more appropriate word - nearly half a billion followed by the sequel which has gone way beyond that and is still accounting.

Warner's, still reeling from the end of the Harry Potter series, now seem only too happy to put their faith instead in this most unlikely of franchises, so it looks like the big bucks are well and truly pending for the comedy threesome.

Eat your heart out, Mr Hester.