She’s very sensitive and gets upset easily, and I’m a bit like that. We’re like sisters really: if I’ve got any problems, I tell her.My marriage broke up, and sometimes I feel quite low and talk to her about it. In my married life I was just at home, bringing up the children I didn’t really have any teenage years. I met my husband when I was 15 and I was 16 when I had Silvana.

But when he left I was crying every day and then I thought: “What are you doing?” I started going out with Silvana We had a really good time. I think she was proud to have me there: we were dancing and that We had a good time.I try to get out as much as possible For 23 years I was like a prisoner in my own house. Now I am my own person, with no-one saying I can’t do this, can’t go there…Sometimes Silvana asks me “Are you all right?” And the other day she said to me: “I don’t think you’re as happy as you look, Mum”. I started being a bit tearful as something was said to me about my husband and it all starts coming back… I usually have a smile on my face, whether I’m upset or whatever I might be feeling.This house is like Piccadilly Circus. All day long, friends coming in and out, and staying till three in the morning.. Silvana’s different from me. I like people coming round for a chat and a cup of tea, but Silvana is a bit of a loner.

If people come round, she’ll go in her bedroom and shut herself in there. When she was younger she used to do the same.I wish she would sit down with me and talk to my friends. Sometimes she does, for a little while, then she’s off upstairs and shuts the door She puts her music on – sad music. And when I go up to see if she’s all right, she’s in tears.I will be divorced soon, but I don’t want anyone moving in with me and taking over, because I’m quite used to my independence now I’m involved a bit with a Turkish chap I met him at the Island I only see him about once a week. Once I said he could come home for a cup of coffee, I said to him: “Just coffee, no sex.” He goes: “No problem.” Silvana likes him and he likes her.My other children are more wary, I think, because there’s a different man in my life, but Silvana says: “Get on with it, whatever makes you happy.”Interviews by Veronica Groocock. What Is It?

Woody Allen comedy, shot in black and white, about self-obsessed celebrity journo Lee Simon, who dumps his wife of 16 years to pursue younger women.
Who’s In It?Kenneth Branagh (right) as Simon has his Woody Allen impersonation down to a Tee but it’s so mannered that the character is unconvincing. Allen’s star-laden venture also features Judy Davis, who gives the film’s best performance as Simon’s abandoned wife, who falls for Joe Mantegna’s suave TV producer.

Winona Ryder plays an aspiring actress, while best of all, Leonardo DiCaprio takes the rise out of himself as a spoilt movie brat.What They Say About It”The problem of Branagh won’t go away… [he's] neither one thing nor the other, and you certainly have no idea why young women keep throwing themselves at him,” Anthony Quinn, The Independent.”Who can tell what the relatively under-par quality of Celebrity betokens for Later Period Allen. A blip? Or a warning of inexorable decline?” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.”For all the familiar self-indulgences, Allen delivers one of his sharpest and sourest movies in years,” James Christopher, The Times.Where You Can See ItCelebrity (18, 114 mins) is on release at selected cinemas countrywide.. IT HELPDESKS at many British companies are themselves in need of succour and soothing.

Even those who run them admit they’re understaffed, underskilled and overwhelmed. Even some FTSE 100 companies seem to be complacent about investing in IT staff. “The general opinion is that our helpdesk is useless and we often find they don’t know what we are talking about and we know more than they do,” said one employee of a FTSE 100 firm. “This means that the secretaries have to work as their own on-the-spot helpdesk We had a new system implemented with NT and Office 97. Guess who got all the training – the secretaries.”
Such concerns, led David Taylor to form the Association of IT Directors recently. As president, Taylor has made it his mission to recruit IT directors to his cause – to make businesses more aware of the needs of IT and to make IT more business friendly. So far he has got 38 firms, including the AA and NatWest, on board, but found it an up-hill struggle.Consultants who help install systems and train people also complain of a malaise among IT helpdesks.