Work Hard, Play Hard
With the nation's eyes glued to Heathrow customs this weekend as onetime-champion-turned-one-man-freakshow Mike Tyson swaggered into the country, you could be forgiven for forgetting the trans-Atlantic treadmill doesn't begin and end with choleric pigeon-fancying ex-cons. Take John Lasseter, the wholly even-tempered creator of such animated delights as A Bug's Life, who is in the UK right this moment plugging his latest pixelated opus, Toy Story 2. Pitching up for two days - starting yesterday - he'll be entertaining the press until this evening, at which point he hops on his flight back to the States.

Blood On The Carpet
On a rather different cinematic note, meanwhile, Danish wunderkind Nicolas Winding Refn arrives from the mean streets of Copenhagen any time now for a brief stint in support of his imminent Bleeder, probably the most brutally accomplished Euro-flick since well, since his last one, the 1997 narco-drama Pusher. The surprisingly charming Refn can be found lurking in an alleyway near you until the end of the week, before returning to Denmark (or possibly Rio, where he's currently working with inimitable novelist Hubert Selby Jr).

Dope Show
And throw your collective hands in the air for Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, one half of seminal house production team Masters At Work, who rolls up towards the end of the week in time for the launch party of his latest album (the winningly titled Funk Spectrum 2) at London's The End. Which just leaves room for avant-garde thrash-jazz nabob John Zorn, whose seemingly arbitrary range of squealing and parping visits The Barbican next Tuesday on a triple bill with fellow New York crazies Masada and Bar Kokhba.