Veteran actor Eli Wallach has been dubbed a "medical miracle" after he headed straight back to work following a life-threatening hip-replacement operation.

The 92-year-old - who has acted in over a hundred films in his lifetime, including 1966 classic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - stunned doctors by recently leaving the hospital and going straight back to the studio to shoot two new movies.

His daughter Katherine Wallach tells the New York Post's gossip column PageSix, "He's doing really well. He's sailing. They're calling him a medical miracle, because he defies all the odds...

The Sopranos star Federico Castelluccio has hit out at the show's creator David Chase after he was dropped from the series. Castelluccio claims he was promised his character Furio Giunta would return for the sixth season of the show.

The Italian-born actor says, "They promised me I would be coming back this season, but it never happened... People tell me how much they enjoyed my character, but (Chase) just tossed me aside without any mention or follow-up as to what happened to me. It's just not right. The fans have a right to know."

Castelluccio accuses Chase of arrogantly ignor...