A NORWEGIAN hack sitting next to me reminds me that Julia Roberts is the kind of woman you would go camping with, but not take to bed.

We are sitting in a hotel in Knightsbridge, awaiting the arrival of Roberts and entourage - British dreamboat rogue Clive Owen and writer-director Tony Gilroy. They are here for a press road-show on their new corporate thriller, Duplicity, which opens here on Wednesday.

Sputtering rapid-fire witticisms in a story of two secret agents-turned-industrial spies who distrust each other, the 42-year-old star wears her 19 years of glamour after her claim to fame in Garry Marshall's Pretty Woman (1990) unsurprisingly well.

Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times, Life!.