Leona Lewis wants to star in a film. The 'Bleeding Love' singer is a massive fan of Beyonce Knowles - who juggles successful music and film careers - and would love to follow in her footsteps one day.

Kanye West says his new album is "retardedly good". The hip-hop star is delighted with new record '808s and Heartbreak' and claims some of the tracks are so good rappers everywhere will be desperate to sample them.

Enrique Iglesias wants to "die drunk". The 'Hero' singer consumed a considerable amount of alcohol when the plane he was travelling on was forced to make an emergency landing due to an engine malfunction last month.

Daniel Day-Lewis can't stop speaking in an Italian accent. The Oscar-winning actor - renowned for his love of method acting, where he refuses to come out of character in between scenes - has reportedly been amusing co-stars Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penelope Cruz with his constant accent on the set of musical movie 'Nine'.

John Barrowman is planning to adopt in secret. The actor is desperate to open up his home to a disadvantaged youngster, but doesn't want to make a big fuss about it like other celebrities, including Madonna - who adopted a Malawian tot - and Angelina Jolie - who has given a home to a trio of children from three countries, Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia.

Hugh Jackman used to go to bed naked, until he accidentally flashed his night nanny. The 'Australia' actor - who has two adopted children with spouse Deborra-Lee Furness - preferred to wear nothing when he slept, but soon changed his mind after an unfortunate encounter with an employee.

Simon Cowell wants Leona Lewis to behave more like a "diva". The music mogul - who discovered Leona on UK TV talent show 'The X Factor' - has asked the singer to make more requests when she performs, but she has so far ignored his advice.

Gary Calamar handpicks music for shows such as "True Blood," "Dexter" and "Entourage."

Every intense music fan presumes he or she has what it takes to be a TV or film music supervisor, and they have a box of clattering mix tapes from high school to prove it. Yes, it was clever how you started with "Please Come Home Baby" by Tom Waits and finished with Mel Tormé's "Comin' Home Baby," but there's more to the job than making "High Fidelity" lists.

After the passage of Proposition 8, some are calling for boycotts and firings. Others worry about free speech rights being trampled.

Should there be boycotts, blacklists, firings or de-facto shunning of those who supported Proposition 8?

The hallmarks of their best work can be found in the early efforts 'Freaks and Geeks' and 'Bottle Rocket.'

The coincidental releases this week of a pair of cult staples -- "Freaks and Geeks" (in a deluxe "yearbook" set) and "Bottle Rocket" (in a Criterion edition) -- make for an intriguing compare-and-contrast exercise. Since these early efforts, Judd Apatow and Wes Anderson have emerged as the twin kingpins of misfit man-child comedy. Along with the various associates and pretenders in their orbit, they now account for a remarkably wide swath of contemporary Hollywood screen humor.

As banks increasingly opt out of funding, directors are using new ways to raise revenue to make movies.

Wanted: 1,700 brave investors each willing to shell out $30 for a credit as a co-executive producer on an independent movie about New York's illegal graffiti street-art scene. The reward: striking a "blow for artistic freedom."

FX's gritty police drama has been an arresting experience for its actors as well as its viewers. Its finale is Tuesday.

Viewers tuning in to the finale of FX's groundbreaking cop drama “The Shield” on Tuesday can count on a few things: There will be no parking difficulties, no plate of onion rings, no Journey song, and no sudden cut to black.

How the director worked on the movie 'The Reader' while readying 'Billy Elliot: The Musical' for Broadway.

The giant-sized, multicolored dancing dresses that play a central role in "Billy Elliot: The Musical" make up the kind of dream sequence that could very quickly fill your nightmares.

In 'Californication' and on film, the actress' characters tend to inflame desire. Her great passion, however, is to secure her late husband's legacy.

On television, she plays the steady hand in a show about unsteady people, the muse to David Duchovny's tortured-writer protagonist in Showtime's saucy Sunday night series " Californication ."

A news story about the taunting of a boy with Asperger's syndrome inspires a tough, award-winning movie by Nic Balthazar.

Bullying is not just an epidemic in American schools, but an increasingly brutal worldwide phenomenon that can result in damaged psyches and death, as the headlines too often reveal.

After years of starts and stops, the director, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn bring the San Francisco politician's story to the screen.

Long before making "Milk," the film due Wednesday about the life and death of openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, director Gus Van Sant imagined a scene in which the voluble, charismatic Milk was dressed as Ronald McDonald. In that version, Dan White, a fellow city supervisor who shot and killed Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978, was deep in a "sugar-infused rage" and "envisioned himself as the Twinkie sheriff and he shot Mayor McCheese, and Harvey was Ronald McDonald."

Josh Schwartz talks about Gossip Girl, Chuck and more.

Josh Schwartz is the creator of NBC's “ Chuck " and the CW's “ Gossip Girl ." He created Fox's "The O.C.," which closed shop in 2007. He is also the creator of " Rockville, CA," which will air on

A continent-sized vision drove the director to make his epic.

The most recognizable stars of Baz Luhrmann's cattle-drive drama “Australia” are Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. But on a December day nearly two years ago, even as Kidman flitted about Luhrmann's creative compound in the hills above Sydney, all of the Australian writer-director's attention was focused on an actor who is just as important a member of the ensemble: a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy who had never acted in anything. ¶ Luhrmann's new movie is as ambitious as its weighty title suggests. Arriving Wednesday, "Australia" represents an unusual amalgam of his heightened, modern theatricality, perhaps best exemplified in his last film, 2001's mash-up musical "Moulin Rouge!," and classic old-school historical epics such as "Out of Africa," "Gone With the Wind" and "Lawrence of Arabia," three films Luhrmann often refers to. Blending those seemingly incompatible filmmaking styles -- over-the-top outrageous on one hand, formal and restrained on the other -- was not Luhrmann's only goal, although it turned into a daunting challenge. He also wanted to dramatize his native country's less-than-virtuous recent history: One of "Australia's" central conflicts hinges on the government's campaign to separate mixed-race children (half-Aboriginal, half-Caucasian) from their parents, a failed " stolen generation " attempt to make the population more white.

The box office success of Summit Entertainment's Twilight movie has already led to the approval of the second chapter. Twilight grossed $35.7 million on opening day alone.

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David Pichette is about to take a step that no other member of his band Emerson Drive has taken before -- fatherhood. David, 31, and his wife Jill are expecting their first child -- a little girl -- any day now and while they may not know exactly when she will arrive, they do know that she is healthy. The whole experience has given the fiddle player "such another appreciation of life. And the bond that you develop with your wife, throughout the whole nine months. It just makes me a very happy man." Since this will be the first baby for the band, David believes his fellow bandmates are waiting to see how it works for him before they decide to try parenthood on for size themselves.

"I think they're testing it out on me. They're going to see how it goes. Then they're going to be like, alright, it wasn't that bad for Dave, so... [laugh]."

David and Jill were married May 17, 2008.

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