Alice Coster
AUSTRALIAN pop princess Natalie Imbruglia is helping mend Prince Harry's broken heart after his split from longtime girlfriend Chelsy Davy.
Carly Crawford
MORE than a year after his death, Heath Ledger's image still haunts one of the women who found him.
Peta Hellard
CAN Hugh Jackman revive the Oscars' ailing ratings?
Peta Hellard in Los Angeles
IT'S Heath Ledger as you have never seen him before -only 20 years old and loving life on the brink of Hollywood stardom.
Alan Howe
FILM director Simon Wincer thought he had seen it all.
2009 is shaping up as the year of the underdog at the Oscars with a rags-to-riches tale of a Mumbai teaboy battling big budgets and Tinsel Town royalty, a stirring comeback from a washed up has-been and a never-say-die attitude from a serial bridesmaid set to take the top honours.
Nobody will take you seriously once you're known as 'the pretty woman'," says extremely pretty woman Penelope Cruz.
HE'S played all sorts of he-men, including The Hulk, and actor Eric Bana was exuding his macho side in practice for the WPS Bathurst 12-hour race yesterday.
SINCE Billy Crystal hung up his hat in 2004 after successfully hosting the ceremony eight times, the Academy has tried a range of options in recent years from the controversial, confrontational Chris Rock, to the affable Ellen DeGeneres and the understated but edgy Jon Stewart.
ERIC Bana has shown you can drive a mean racing machine and still go 'green' by offsetting the carbon emissions during the making of his new film.
HALLE Berry will play a real-life diamond thief in the new film Who Is Doris Payne?
ISLA Fisher has defended her new movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic, insisting it remains relevant despite the current economic climate.
ONCE Josh Brolin found a source of income outside Hollywood, his acting career took off.
BERLIN, Istanbul, London, Milan, New York, Adelaide. Clive Owen has seen them all over the past year, some for long enough to unpack and have his family visit, others flashing by like so many sped-up frames in a scene from the life of a successful actor.
JUSTIN Long has learned about celebrity, after an A-list romance and a starring role in He's Just Not That Into You. But he's still finding out about romance.
WILL SMITH has been named the most bankable star in Hollywood, topping Forbes' Star Currency list, which ranks stars according to their box office pulling power.
CLINT Eastwood continues to make our day with a magnum load of creativity.
AFTER years of blink-and-you'd-miss-her supporting roles and cameos, Elizabeth Banks is finally stepping into the spotlight.
JOAQUIN Phoenix has quit acting to become a rapper, and has been laying down tracks for a hip-hop album in the recording studio he built at his home.
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MERYL Streep was named Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild awards, for her role in ecclesiastical drama Doubt, and she was genuinely amazed.
Lawrie Masterson
HAUNTED by the threat of one of her children being kidnapped, Angelina Jolie initially turned her back on Clint Eastwood's Changeling, writes Lawrie Masterson.
BY the standards of mere mortals, British beauties Kate Winslet and Catherine Zeta Jones look very good indeed.
HEATH Ledger has joined an elite group of celebrities who have earned as much or more from beyond the grave than they did when alive.
Herald Sun critic Leigh Paatsch casts his eye over the local cinema releases. This week: Zack and Miri make a Porno, and Kate Winslet is enigmatic.
2009 is shaping up as the year of the underdog at the Oscars with a rags-to-riches tale of a Mumbai teaboy battling big budgets and Tinsel Town royalty, a stirring comeback from a washed up has-been and a never-say-die attitude from a serial bridesmaid set to take the top honours.
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CATE Blanchett playing Pauline Hanson? Producers of a proposed political biopic have approached the actress to play the controversial redhead.
RICKY Gervais may not be following Hollywood protocol of having youth, slim lines, Herculean good looks or even white teeth, but somehow he's still a hit.
JOAQUIN Phoenix's recent movie director feels responsible for his bizarre career change, which saw the star appear dishevelled and incoherent with David Letterman.
ADORABLE He's Just Not That Into You star Ginnifer Goodwin doesn't Google herself - or anyone else - any more.
Wires
SHE first swung into action 50 years ago, helping her boyfriend Batman rid Gotham City of villains - until she was killed off in 1979.
THE producers of Oscar-winning animated film Happy Feet have ensured their next big project will also have an Australian flavour.
ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio has received a Cinema for Peace award for his efforts in promoting peace and tolerance in the global film business.
IN real life, Ricky Gervais does not believe in ghosts. Put them on the big screen, however, and he's more than game to see dead people.
Dubbed one of the best, most powerful shows on television, Battlestar Galactica is in its final season overseas and we've got an exclusive peek at the latest episodes - straight off the satellite from the US.
THE countdown to the Oscars has officially begun, with the stars in the race for Academy Awards glory gathering at the annual nominees lunch in Beverly Hills yesterday.
LAURENT Cantet's Palme d'Or winning film The Class came about courtesy of a coincidence at which even a hack screenwriter might have baulked.
TRAGIC movie heart throb Patrick Swayze has admitted he is losing his battle with cancer and has given up on treatment, telling fans he is going through hell.
UNION moderates in the Screen Actors Guild have ousted the hard-line chief contract negotiator they blame for stalled labor talks with Hollywood's major studios.
Luke Dennehy and Kim Wilson
SPORTING a sexy new short bob, a relaxed Dannii Minogue is loving being back in Australia - and a world away from Sharon Osbourne.