Already a star on Broadway, the charismatic Idina Menzel ("Rent," "Wicked") is ready to star on album. To make that happen, she has enlisted the man responsible for launching, or continuing the phenomenal careers of, other recent major female artists.

An absorbing true story about serial killers on the lam, Lonely Hearts is based on the murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez during the late 1940s and Detective Elmer C. Robinson's participation in their capture, incarceration and subsequent executions.

Salma Hayek and Colin Farrell's naked tryst in movie Ask The Dust has won the best nude movie scene of 2006. The pair's steamy skinny-dipping clinch in the Robert Towne-directed film was awarded the top flesh-baring accolade by film review website Mr.Skin.com.

Mexican actress Salma Hayek has reportedly fired her agent after starring in a series of unsuccessful films. The beauty is shocked by her recent failures at the box office, including Ask The Dust co-starring Colin Farrell, which grossed less than $1 million in the United States.

Salma Hayek has slammed Hollywood for their discrimination against Mexican actors. The actress insists she faced huge problems trying to overcome her "outsider" status in American cinema. She says, "Mexicans are not the most welcome outsiders in America."

* Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures will remake classic movie The Dirty Dozen, the 1967 action drama that starred Lee Marvin as a major who enlists 12 condemned solider-prisoners for a dangerous mission in World War II. Joel Silver will produce the film.

Salma Hayek has become the unofficial spokeswoman for a hamburger cafe in Cape Town, South Africa. The actress gobbled down hamburgers from fast food diner Royale while shooting new movie Ask The Dust in South Africa, and now can't wait to return because everything tastes poor in comparison.

Latina beauty Salma Hayek filled out for her part in new movie Ask The Dusk by going on a special hamburger diet. The Hollywood actress feasted on junk food to gain curves for her role as a voluptuous 1930's Mexican woman, opposite Irish lothario Colin Farrell.