Warren Beatty was like ‘lazy leopard ready to pounce’, says new book

October 1st, 2009 ANNETTE BENING was forced to pull out of her Los Angeles play MEDEA on Wednesday night (30Sep09) due to "a family medical emergency". Bening, who is married to Warren Beatty, was expected back onstage on Thursday (01Oct09) as WENN went to press, but no details about Wednesday's drama was available.

September 30th, 2009 French movie icon LESLIE CARON missed out on the lead in BONNIE & CLYDE because her real-life lover, WARREN BEATTY, thought she was too old. The GiGi star was five years older than Beatty when she left her husband to romance the Hollywood Lothario and when he started working on the classic heist movie, she felt sure she'd play his leading lady.

September 21st, 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON blasted his famous family members in explosive recordings made for his 1988 autobiography - branding JERMAINE a "womaniser" and TITO "boring". The King Of Pop hits out at all of his Jackson 5 bandmate brothers - Jermaine and Tito, as well as Marlon and Jackie - claiming they were lazy and moaned during their time in the group, while he was always "watching and learning".

September 11th, 2009 Former supermodel JANICE DICKINSON has found love with a Los Angeles firefighter 22 years her junior. The 54-year-old star met her new boyfriend, Alex Abdalla, at a John Fogerty concert just days after she was eliminated from U.S.

September 8th, 2009 Columnist Army Archerd dies at 87LOS ANGELES — Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died. He was 87. Archerd's wife, Selma, said he died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lungs strongly tied to asbestos exposure.

September 7th, 2009 R&B star MARY J. BLIGE isn't ready to pen her autobiography as she celebrates 20 years in the music business - insisting she's too young to tell her life story.

September 6th, 2009 Moviemaker KEVIN SMITH is planning to spend Labor Day (07Sep09) 'tweeting' fans. The cult Clerks and Jersey Girl director admits he's been training for a marathon Twitter.com session for weeks - and fans can ask him anything on Monday.

August 28th, 2009 ANNE HECHE's ex husband COLEY LAFFOON is fuming after the actress branded him a "lazy-a**" during a U.S. TV interview.

August 27th, 2009 Actress ANNE HECHE took aim at her ex-husband during an interview with U.S. talkshow legend DAVID LETTERMAN - branding COLEY LAFFOON a lazy a.

August 12th, 2009 Rocker NICK CAVE is embracing technology - his new novel will be released as an iPhone application. Hi-tech readers will be able to get their hands on The Death of Bunny Munro on their Apple phones before the book, Cave's second novel, hits bookstores.

August 12th, 2009 Hollywood Foreign Press give away $1.2 millionBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — At the annual Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gives away gold-and-marble statuettes.

July 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - American pop singer Justin Timberlake is said to be getting ready for his next venture - writing a book about golf. Timberlake, 28, looks set to write the book as his literary agent David Vigliano has sent editors a short proposal by the singer last month, revealed sources.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Aussie comedian Barry Humphries seems to be unhappy with director Baz Luhrman's plans to turn 'The Great Gatsby' book into a film. The Moulin Rouge helmer is aiming to bring F Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age classic onto the big screen, but Dame Edna star Humphries, it seems, is not ready.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones paid tribute to her husband Michael Douglas by reprising her role as Velma Kelly in 'Chicago', after he received the annual AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Douglas, 64, who has starred in films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fatal Attraction and Wall Street, received his lifetime achievement award from actor Jack Nicholson, reports the Sun.

May 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - American singer Barbra Streisand's ex has revealed that she was once sexually abused by a movie mogul while auditioning for a film. Streisand's ex-boyfriend and Hollywood producer Jon Peters is set to lay bare some of the hidden secrets of the 67-year-old singer in his tell-all book, reports New York Post.