FROM HEAVEN

'It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice' wrote Immanuel Kant, in his seminal work 'Everything's Lovely'. So it's especially nice, in this age of celebrities using the media and grasping for every little penny they can get their grubby little hands on (move away, Katona, nothing to see here) to see a genuinely decent celebrity who makes you feel a little better about the world. It's Johnny Depp.

Last November, in a gesture of thanks to the hospital that saved his daughter's life, Depp had his Captain Jack Sparrow costume flown in from the US and performed an impromptu pantomime for sick children in the hospital, gadding about, reading them bedtime stories and genuinely being a bit of an idiot to introduce some laughter into their lives.

Last week he invited five of the doctors to the premiere of 'Sweeney Todd', showering them with compliments and saying,

"It was the most frightening thing we have ever been through. It was hell. But the magic is that she pulled through beautifully. Great Ormond Street was terrific, a great hospital."

And at the weekend he visited the staff at the hospital again, thanked them all and handed over a personal cheque for a million pounds. That's two million dollars and two million reasons why he's a better human that most of the rest of Hollywood put together. All hail a fucking legend.