Warren says the partnership had already expired and claims a handwritten clause on their contract for an additional three-year term was forged by the King camp King also owes him money, Warren claims Even so, King seems to be fighting a grudge match. King was recently quoted as saying that the thing he most wanted in the world was Frank Warren's head on a plate. Frank certainly makes his enemies mad.King says Warren broke their partnership by taking a six-fight $12m deal to the American pay-per-view channel HBO in 1996 King has a contract with the rival channel Showtime. The VAT charges? "All I know is that I have done nothing wrong.

I have an accountant's report from Coopers and Lybrand saying I have done everything properly." But Warren's larger-than-life problem is Don King, who, appositely, calls himself the "Only in America Man". On a shelf, photos of Warren with Frank Sinatra, his hero, and Nelson Mandela, "a serene man". War-ren, dressed in a well-cut pink shirt and loafers, retains something of the air of the Sixties mod he once was. He admits, "Yes it has been a crap year, a very bad year." Any redeeming features? "No, lost my mum this year too."What about Bedford rugby club, where the players threatened to strike when there was delay in delivering their salary cheques? "The players are being paid, but not by me The club has to stand on its own two feet," says Warren. Last but not least, the Vatman has just summonsed Warren on criminal charges over a claim of pounds 1.9m of unpaid tax Again, the case will take place sometime next year.

If convicted, he faces up to seven years in jail and an unlimited fine.I am ushered into Frank's large office, which is elegantly furnished in leather and maple. In one corner is a huge TV screen, perhaps there for viewing Sky's boxing output, for which Frank is the handsomely paid consultant In the other corner there is a large Wurlitzer jukebox. Bedford rugby club, which Warren partly owns and on which he once rested much of his non-boxing ambition, has been stumbling from crisis to crisis since the summer. In the parlance, he has his back to the ropes. His first problem is Don King, the flamboyant American boxing promoter with the demented ice-cream-cone haircut. Indeed next Saturday, when Hamed defends his title against Wayne Mc-Cullough in a million-dollar American fight, might appear to be a crowning night in Warren's career But it is unlikely he sees it that way Warren's business is threatened. They were well educated and travelled widely.Late in the summer of 1928, Philippe Halsman, then a 22-year-old student, met up with his family in the Tyrolean Alps near Innsbruck, Austria.

He certainly was not a prude, but he never theorised about why his work consistently exerted a strong sensual appeal. Halsman's use of surrealism belongs to the realm of the popular.Throughout his career, Halsman proudly identified himself as a professional photographer. He was known for his exacting standards: he never missed a deadline, his prints were rich and flawless, and he pursued every possibility in search of the right result.Halsman was born in 1906 in Riga, the capital of Latvia, and studied engineering in Dresden His father, Max, was a dentist; his mother, Ita, a teacher The Halsmans were a typical assimilated Jewish family. Through lighting, focus, and close cropping, he turned formal fashion shots into serious investigations of character. And by including homely and ultimately disturbing details he gave his subjects drama.From the surrealists' early exploration of the erotic unconscious, Halsman also learned the strategies he used to represent sex. He preserved a disarming innocence in his frequent use of hats, hands, cigarettes, and other fetishised objects.