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RSSThe surprise announcement of co-hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin for the Oscars next year hid the declined invitations of actors Robert Downey Jr and Ben Stiller, according to a report.
Academy Awards organisers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman were reported to have asked Downey Jr and Stiller, a pair of dark comedians, to share hosting [...]
Hollywood couple Courteney Cox and David Arquette have teamed up with an American jewellery manufacturer to create their own range for charity, according to reports.
The pair are spearheading a drive to raise money for children suffering from epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare genetic condition that affects the skin.
They reportedly decided to raise money after a [...]
The Boys Are Back actor Clive Owen has said fans will be surprised to know that he does the washing-up in his house.
Clive, 45, lives in Highgate, London, with his wife Sarah-Jane and their two young daughters, Hannah and Eve.
He said: “You may find it surprising but I do the washing up, all of [...]
Hollywood star Kevin Costner has not brought his family on his European tour as he is afraid of the risk of swine flu.
Kevin, 54, has six children and his two youngest children – sons Cayden, two, and Hayes, eight months – are with his current wife Christine Baumgartner.
He said: “It is unusual that my family [...]
Sean Penn has had a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, discussing a possible movie about an American anthropologist.
Chavez said the pair met privately and discussed making a movie out of the 1953 novel The Lost Steps by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. The book tells the tale of an American composer and anthropologist who journeyed [...]
A Hollywood director has hailed Matt Damon for being easy to work with.
Steven Soderbergh, best known for Sex, Lies and Videotape, said he needed an actor who was fast on his feet for the upcoming comic thriller The Informant! He said Damon, whom he directed in Ocean’s Eleven, was an instant choice for a part [...]
Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has admitted that it’s sometimes “really difficult” to live so far away from her family.
Reese, 33, lives in LA with her children Ava and Deacon, but she is from Tennessee where her family still live.
However Reese, who is dating actor Jake Gyllenhaal, admitted that she tries to recreate a little bit [...]
Star Trek actor George Takei and his partner Brad Altman have boldly gone where no gay couple has gone before … the long-running US TV show The Newlywed Game.
George and Brad were the first same-sex couple to appear in the show’s 43-year history on Tuesday night.
During the show George also revealed he can’t get out [...]
Mad Men star John Slattery is fighting plans to build a new sanitation building in his trendy New York neighbourhood.
The actor, who plays Roger Sterling in the hit TV drama, is angry at the $346m sanitation department plan.
It would see a garage complex built near the city’s West Side Highway to store the city’s garbage [...]
Couple Retreat star Vince Vaughn has revealed he proposed to girlfriend Kyla Weber on Valentine’s Day.
Vince, 39, proposed to Canadian real estate agent Kyla in February this year, however he spoke to her about it first to make sure she’d say yes.
He said during an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show: “Have you seen these [...]
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Hollywood stars such as Richard D Jenkins have been visiting the holy city of Varanasi in India.
The spot is considered to be the most-sacred spot on earth by many Hindus and it is claimed Jenkins, who starred in the movie The Visitor, offered diya, a lamp, to the holy river Ganga.
He also visited the Ganga [...]
Lost star Daniel Dae Kim will join Matt Damon in new movie The Adjustment Bureau.
Kim, 41, is to star alongside Michael Kelly and John Slattery in the film, which will be directed by George Nolfi.
The screenplay has been adapted from a Philip K. Dick short story and centres around a congressman, played by Damon, who [...]
Prison Break star Wentworth Miller is to appear in the fourth Resident Evil film, according to co-star Boris Kodjoe.
Boris, 36, has signed up to appear in the fourth film in the franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife, opposite Milla Jovovich, who will reprise her role as Alice in the horror flick by director Paul W.S Anderson.
Talking about [...]
Bridget Jones star Renee Zelleweger will reportedly wear a fat suit for the third film in the series.
Renee, 40, previously put on 30lbs of weight for the role of podgy Bridget in the last two movies and she did that by eating pizza and peanut butter sandwiches.
However, it has now been claimed that the star [...]
Actor Kiefer Sutherland will become chairman of an actors conservatory in Toronto.
Sutherland, who is the son of actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, will take the helm of a four-month actors conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) until February 2010.
Attending a CFC barbecue at the Toronto International Film Festival, he said: “I am honoured [...]
Veteran US actor Harrison Ford received a lifetime film tribute at the highly regarded 35th Deauville American Film Festival.
Harrison, 67, choked back tears as he was honoured at the event in Normandy, France. He was accompanied by his fiancee, the enigmatic Calista Flockhart and star of Brothers & Sisters.
The pair made a sweetly romantic couple [...]
Former Will And Grace star Eric McCormack is to star in a new film about the con artist known as Clark Rockefeller.
Eric, who played Will in the long-running US sitcom, has signed up for two new TV projects with one about Rockefeller and another where he will star in a single-camera comedy that is said [...]
Actor Matthew McConaughey has had to “super child proof” his new home.
McConaughey, 39, who is expecting his second child with girlfriend Camila Alves, took to his blog to express how he is already kept busy with his 14-month-old son Levi.
He said: “We had to super child proof the new house. He’s motoring around like [Olympic [...]
Courteney Cox has found her groove with Cougar Town. The 45-year-old television actress said she is more enthusiastic about the series than anything she has ever done.
Cox plays a divorced mother trying to find love in Florida. She said: “I hope this show is a huge hit and that people love it. Because I like [...]
Entourage star Jeremy Piven has opened up about his mercury poisoning controversy, saying: “Everybody loves a good fish story.”
The actor, who plays Ari Gold on the HBO and ITV2 hit, bowed out of his lead role in the Broadway production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow late last year after complaining of severe bouts of fatigue.
Piven [...]
Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon is helping his mother recover from cancer, it has been revealed.
Lady Sonia McMahon is recovering at her home in Sydney, Australia after having an operation to remove lymph glands from under her left arm two weeks ago.
She was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma in the same arm in July.
Julian has been [...]
Action hero Rambo is gearing up for his fifth mission.
Sylvester Stallone has been given the greenlight to direct and star as John Rambo in the franchise’s fifth installment.
The upcoming project’s storyline revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the US-Mexico border
Production will start [...]
Veteran actor Geoffrey Rush has claimed Australia is now obsessed with fame.
He said the country now focuses on celebrity and red carpet goings-on rather than creative movie-making.
Rush said recently: “When I was starting out in film no-one knew who Toni Collette was, no-one knew who Baz Luhrmann was, no-one knew who I was. We were [...]
Liam Neeson says he and his sons are ‘taking each day as it comes’ following the death of the star’s wife Natasha Richardson.
Richardson died earlier this year following a head injury she received during a ski trip to Canada.
Neeson said that his sons, Michael, 14, and Daniel, 12, ‘are doing good’.
“I am still getting extraordinary [...]
The Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers said it’s “tiring” to play King Henry VIII.
The 32-year-old Irish actor, who will soon return in a new series of the hit show, said: “I can’t understand why anyone would want to be king. It’s such a difficult, tiring job. It’s a tiring job playing him.”
Meyers also hit back [...]