CAMERON DIAZ CAN NOW GROW UP GRACEFULLY

CAMERON Diaz won't be acting daft on the couch during Friday Night with Jonathan Ross tomorrow - after her father Emilio died earlier this month aged 58.

Still in mourning, she will instead be represented by Ashton Kutcher, her co-star in next month's release What Happens in Vegas.
I'm not so sure he'll be the late night tonic for female viewers that Cameron would have been for men.
Both my wife and I lost our own fathers at ridiculously young ages so we know how she feels and are thinking of her.
In general, I doubt if many people truly value their parents until it's too late.
I know that losing my dad, for example, made me grow up pretty fast.
The real positive for me was that I became a lot closer to my mother than I might have done otherwise.
And, when illness unexpectedly then cut her life short, I had no regrets.
If any good can come of this sorry story, it will be for Cameron Diaz to grow up on screen.
She should now feel strong enough to want to make the sort of mature, life-affirming dramas which her CV is currently lacking.
In other words, a film she can proudly dedicate to the memory of her father...

* Bizarrely, Cameron's current movie in post-production is called The Box which has been written and directed by Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko).
If she presses a button after receiving the gift, it will kill someone in the world who she does not know...
Spooky.