Jonathan Pryce, who starred - though ever so slightly eclipsed by Bill Nighy partly morphed into a giant octopus - in this summer's hit Pirates of the Caribbean film, was announced last night as winner of a "Cymry for the World" honour. The awards, intended to shower stardust on Welsh figures in the arts, will be presented at the Wales Millennium Centre in November. Pryce, a coalminer's son from Holywell, will be honoured along with the Manic Street Preachers, Stuart Burrows, Dr Karl Jenkins and Ivor Novello.
Banksy, the Bristol-based artist and serial prankster - who is billing his latest exhibition, opening next weekend in Los Angeles, as "mindless vandalism and pretty pictures" - is believed to have struck again, this time in the heart of Disneyland California. The Disney Corporation would undoubtedly decry the intervention on its Rocky Mountain Railroad ride as vandalism, but it was far from mindless. The ride was brought to a juddering halt when an improbable passenger was spotted. Under the gaze of thousands of tourist cameras, security staff sprinted to remove the black-hooded, manacled, orange jumpsuited figure, who proved not to be a Guantánamo Bay escapee but a blow-up doll.
At last, the most burning question of the year is answered - Brad Pitt has announced when he and Angelina Jolie will wed: when gay marriages are legalised across America. "Angie and I will consider tying the knot," he tells Esquire magazine, "when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able."
