Streep’s Impromptu Audition Landed Julia Role

October 3rd, 2009 "Watching NOTTING HILL again... A lot of my life I feel like Anna Scott." Pop princess MILEY CYRUS Tweets on the pressures of fame, identifying with JULIA ROBERTS' character in the 1999 comedy.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Kirsten Dunst reportedly turned up uninvited to a party in New York to participate in an audition for a movie role. The 27-year-old gatecrashed a lunchtime event at The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room to be tested for a role in Oscar-winning director Jane Campions forthcoming movie "Runaway" based on a series of short stories by Alice Munro.

September 20th, 2009 Actress KIRSTEN DUNST put on a show for stunned partygoers in New York - after crashing a bash for Oscar-winning director JANE CAMPION to perform an impromptu audition. The Spider-Man star showed up uninvited to a luncheon at the posh Plaza Hotel's Oak Room on Tuesday (15Sep09), held in Campion's honour.

September 10th, 2009 New mum JENNIFER HUDSON is to be an aunt - her sister is pregnant. The happy news comes almost a year after a family murder tragedy, in which Hudson's sibling Julia lost her seven-year-old son Julian.

September 8th, 2009 MERYL STREEP was shunned by JULIA CHILD when she appealed to the U.S. culinary queen for help with a charity drive - 20 years before she went on to portray the chef in JULIE & JULIA.

September 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - Actress Meryl Streep landed the lead role in "Julie & Julia" after she auditioned for the director during a night out at a theatre. The veteran actress plays US culinary queen Julia Child in the new film, which was written, directed and produced by Nora Ephron.

September 2nd, 2009 MICHAEL FASSBENDER was convinced he'd wrecked his chance to appear in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS after clashing with director QUENTIN TARANTINO during his audition. The actor spent hours practising for the role of Colonel Hans Landa in the World War II drama, and was dismayed when he arrived at his tryout only for Tarantino to ask him to read a different part.

August 28th, 2009 Actor BRADLEY COOPER is blaming BATMAN star CHRISTIAN BALE for costing him the lead role in forthcoming superhero film THE GREEN LANTERN. Cooper auditioned to star in the upcoming comic book movie adaptation - but ruined his screen test by imitating Bale's husky-voiced portrayal of the caped crusader.

August 10th, 2009 "Julia" cleans up "Julie" among readersNEW YORK —On paper and on screen, "Julia" is stealing the show from "Julie." Meryl Streep's performance as Julia Child in "Julie & Julia," which opened last weekend, has helped return the late chef's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a classic published nearly 50 years ago, to the top of best-seller lists. On Monday, a $40 hardcover of "Mastering" topped the charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, easily outpacing a $7.99 paperback of the book that gave the film its title, "Julie & Julia" — Julie Powell's memoir about spending a year preparing all the recipes in Child's book.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has picked Julia Roberts to play her in a film based on her life - because they have had similar hairdos. Price, who is releasing her fourth autobiography later this year, revealed that it was after watching Roberts' Oscar-winning performance in the film Erin Brockovich that made her chose the stunning Hollywood star, reports The Mirror.

July 23rd, 2009 Oscar winner Julia Roberts of the Pretty Woman fame is gearing up for her next role as a country hopping hippie in search of everything for her upcoming Eat, Pray, Love movie. Eat, Pray, Love, a book by Pushcart Prize winner Elizabeth Gilbert with the tagline, One womans search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia, is being made into a feature film.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Veteran actress Meryl Streep gained as much as 15 pounds while filming new movie "Julie and Julia". Accompanying Streep in the weight gain programme was her "Doubt" co-star Amy Adams.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Model-turned-actress Megan Fox was forced to lather up and clean a Ferrari to land herself the female lead in "Transformers", according to a British film critic. The 23-year-old shot to superstardom after appearing in the 2007 sci-fi thriller and its sequel "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" that came out recently.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - The clothes shop scene from 'Pretty Woman' featuring Julia Roberts is 'Brits' Favourite Movie Moment'. In the scene, Roberts as hooker Vivian Ward takes revenge on staff at a posh store where they had earlier refused to serve her, reports the Daily Star.eg Ryan's fake orgasm in 'When Harry Met Sally' was second in a poll by the Turner Classic Movies channel.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - Kiefer Sutherland has revealed that his marriage with Julia Roberts was called off because they had run out of passion. Roberts, who once branded the 24 actor "young and silly" for proposing to her, cancelled the couple's wedding just days before they were due to walk down the aisle in 1991.