Modern Family co-stars Sofia Vergara in Marchesa and Julie Bowen in a scooped back Temperley London opted for gowns in jewel tones.

FORBES: The Red Carpet Report: Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012

Julie Logan, of the Cass Business School in London, found in separate surveys in 2001 and 2007 that 20% of the British entrepreneurs and 35% of the American entrepreneurs she studied were dyslexic. (By contrast, only 1% of corporate managers are similarly afflicted.) Famous dyslexic businessmen include Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, Ted Turner, John Chambers and Henry Ford.

ECONOMIST: A special report on entrepreneurship: All in the mind | The

Julie Frost, who teaches at Godwin Primary school in London, was impressed by what she saw of the lower stream boys.

BBC: London teachers' Jamaican lessons