Anthony Hopkins is to play revered author and adventurer Ernest Hemingway in a new movie, directed by Andy Garcia.

Cuba Gooding Jr. regrets turning down the chance to play a slave in Steven Spielberg's epic Amistad, admitting he was too bigheaded after his Oscar win to accept certain roles. The star accepts his career suffered as a result of the choices he made directly following his Best Supporting Actor Oscar victory in 1996 because he decided he should wait for the very best offers, and turn down everything else.

Anthony Hopkins will be honored next January with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. The award, voted by the board of directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will be presented to Hopkins at the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held Jan. 16, 2006, on NBC.