24-Hour Party People

It's all happening down at the Elysée Palace, dear reader. First of all, we learn that France's new "fun-lovin'" president Nicolas Sarkozy likes nothing better than a good ole karaoke session until 4 a.m. (I could have sworn I heard Elvis's "In the Ghetto" as I drove past there in a taxi the other evening). THEN we learn that his paramour and - if we are to take him at his word - third-wife-to-be Carla Bruni, whose musical talents are no secret, has ANOTHER trick up her sleeve, as it were. Compared to this dazzling couple, my own party-piece of memorizing objects on a tray while singing Abba in Swedish seems positively humdrum. And Rhino75 Towers, the very model of decorum.