17 DECEMBER 1983, page 59

High Life

Topping Taki New York I f Sir Edmund Hillary climbed the social ladder instead of mountains, he would not have missed the annual pilgrimage to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ten......

Cinema

Black humour Peter Ackroyd Trading Places (` 15', selected cinemas) A the title suggests, this is a film with a familiar if not antique theme: `The Prince and the Pauper', not......

Television

Disasters. Richard Ingrams N early ten years ago we were all gripped by a fly-on-the-wall series of program- mes about a family of halfwits called Wilkins living in Reading. On......