COMEDIAN Elaine C Smith will be among an all-star cast for the stage version of the hit film Calendar Girls. Actresses Lynda Bellingham and Patricia Hodge will also appear in the comedy about a group from the Women's Institute who pose naked for a charity calendar.

By Shona Craven WHEN a film is adapted for the stage, or vice versa, any concerns about the transition usually relate to artistic aspects - the tone, set or casting, for example.

ELAINE C Smith appears to have found a Friend she can count on as she strips off for the West End stage. The Scots comic actress used a strategically placed People's Friend to spare her modesty as she posed with her co-stars in Calendar Girls.

By Rhonda. Markby Cancer Society, Country Women's Institute, peep shows? The latter might not usually be associated with the former, but Fairview CWI members are encouraging a healthy dose of good- natured voyeurism -- for a very good cause.

Miss December is wearing nothing but a Santa hat and a smile. Oh, and holding one strategically placed cat. Chandra Gates, 39, decided the Humane Society of Jefferson County was a worthy enough cause for the 39-year-old to bare nearly allfor a nude-calendar fundraiser.