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This weekend The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Mccartney and The Who will all appear at the Desert Trip concert in California, billed as the “greatest rock festival of all time”. The stars – who have an average age of 72 – are being paid up to $7m each. But with tickets costing up to £2,250, one old rocker (who hasn’t been invited) thinks it’s a rip-off. “All it really is is an empty field,” grumbled David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills and Nash. “The sound outdoors at that place is crap. The situation is crap. It’s a lousy concert.”

Benedict Cumberbatch recently interviewed his great friend

Tom Hiddleston for the glossy magazine Interview. The result, said the Daily Mail, “takes the concept of being a luvvie” and “multiplies it by 1,000 luvviewatts”. “Tom,” says Cumberbatch, “you’re an equally eloquent writer and actor. You’ve got a great reputation as a cineaste.” He goes on to remark that Hiddleston’s hit TV drama The Night Manager was “just utterly riveting”, and to praise his “English smile and charm”, before adding: “You do amazing things for Unicef.” Hiddleston (pictured left with Cumberbatch) then talks about

his love of running – “outside, not in a gym, just me out there in the elements, with only my own legs to propel me forward”. Cumberbatch replies admiringly: “Yes, there’s something so mobile about you.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped by police for cycling through Munich’s main train station with his bodyguard last weekend. The federal police let the movie star, and former governor of California, off with a warning – and a selfie, which was then posted online with the words: “Cycling forbidden in Munich central station – even for the Terminator.”