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IT'S not what you'd expect secret agents to get up to in their spare time but former Avengers actress Honor Blackman says she was once invited to watch co-star Patrick Macnee play tennis in the altogether.

Actors George Clooney, left,A and Bill Murray tour an area hit by an earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy,A on Thursday, July 9. A A Movie video A A Nick Cannon on directorial debut Nick Cannon makes his directorial debut with "The School Gyrls," a film about three talented young girls.

Slim as lightning, Kathryn Bigelow makes movies charged with adrenaline and electricity, action thrillers like "Blue Steel" and "Point Break." The 6-footer with the radiant presence of a Redgrave and the steel nerves of a high-wire artist is drawn to stories about daredevils addicted to the rush.

DAVID BECKHAM has revealed he named his third son after good friend TOM CRUISE. The former England captain became close pals with the Top Gun star in 2003 and says he was the inspiration behind the naming of little CRUZ , who was born in 2005 while David was playing for Spanish giants Real Madrid.

Julianne Moore is stepping out of the role of Hillary Clinton and will be replaced by Hope Davis.

Miss Beckinsale was never in discussions about the film role and there was never a possibility she would be part of the project Photo: PA The 35-year-old star of films such as Pearl Harbor, Underworld and Van Helsing was not at London's High Court for the settlement of her action against Express Newspapers.

Tags: Midway Games O 10 This shouldn't be all too surprising if this turns out to be true.

While I remain in disbelief that they're even making a "Spider-Man 4" , it's not slowing down with Variety reporting that writer/director Gary Ross is coming on board to re-write the script.A The script was first handled by James Vanderbilt and then David Lindsay-Abaire .A The addition of Ross, who wrote "Dave", "Pleasantville", and "Seabiscuit", ...

"MacGruber," the recurring "Saturday Night Live" skit that parodies the action series "MacGyver," is one step closer to going before cameras as a big-screen movie.

Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx, NY, on July 24, 1969; after starting out in musical theater as a child, at age 16 she made her film debut in the little-seen #My Little Girl, but her career then stalled until she was tapped to become one of the dancing "Fly Girls" on the television sketch comedy series #In Living Color.

Spotlights lit up the catwalk Wednesday at Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture show, steeped in old-fashioned Hollywood glamour and paying tribute to screen sirens like Jane Russell and Ava Gardner.

Tobey Maguire has signed on to star in the indie black comedy The Details , written and directed by Jacob Estes.

Okay, so Kathryn Bigelow might be the only major filmmaker to have modeled for the Gap.

Cameron Diaz has gone from golden-girl Hollywood actress to teasing tough-girl in one sexy cover shoot which seems to completely overhaul her image.

Tom Hanks is rejoining the board that oversees the Academy Awards. After a one-year hiatus, Hanks was elected Tuesday to a new three-year term on the board of governors representing the actors branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

A Mission: Impossible IIA director John Woo's next movie will tell the story of the Flying Tigers _ volunteer American pilots who defended China from Japanese attacks during World War II _ his producer said Tuesday.

Rachel Weisz gets mistaken for Tom Cruise. The Oscar-winning actress claims she isn't famous enough to be followed by paparazzi in Hollywood, and only gets snapped by people looking for the 'Valkyrie' star, who lives close to her.

Is George Clooney interested in stepping into Harrison Ford's and Ben Affleck's shoes? According to The Daily Beast , George Clooney has apparently expressed interest in a revival of the Jack Ryan character from the Tom Clancy novels and such films as Clear and Present Danger , Patriot Games and, most recently, 2002's The Sum Of All Fears .

The woman seeking a DNA sample from actor Keanu Reeves said yesterday that her family deserves compensation if he fathered any of her children -- an untested paternity claim that the star's lawyer flatly denied.

The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario is trying to find out why the decision to retain a brain of a 10-year-old girl was not revealed to her parents until almost a year after the autopsy.