Hollywood, friend of cheap dates everywhere

Leonardo di-Caprio and Blood Diamond gave men an excuse not to buy their wives and girlfriends diamonds on the grounds that they were ethically tainted. Now Julia Roberts is going to star in a movie that will do the same for flowers, reports New York Magazine.

The film, based on the Vanity Fair essay ‘A Flowering Evil’, will tell the tale of the conservationist Joan Root who struggled to save Lake Naivasha in Kenya from the flower farm industry before being murdered earlier this year.

All Hollywood needs to do now is to make a good thriller about the evils of the chocolate industry and tight-wads the world over will be able to say, "I'm not cheap, I'm ethical."