Movie pals George Clooney and Brad Pitt are to team up in the new Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading. Coen Brothers regular Frances McDormand will also star in the movie about a CIA agent who loses the back-up disc of the book he is writing.

"My songs talk about real things," says Miranda Lambert. "Things that I've been through or I've witnessed through my friends and family - even my parents' private investigation business. If I feel it, I can sing it and make anyone believe it."

On April 3, Rounder Records will release Alison Krauss’ A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection, an album that encompasses her diverse career as a master vocalist, instrumentalist, collaborator and producer.

The Dreamgirls movie soundtrack has completed its steady rise to the top of the U.S. album charts after five weeks, by claiming the new number one with just 66,000 copies sold. In one of the weakest sales weeks ever on the U.S. Billboard chart, "Dreamgirls" registers the lowest sales total for a number one album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.

* Kirsten Dunst is in talks to play Blondie star Debbie Harry in a new biopic of the punk queen's life, according to Hollywood trade magazine Daily Variety. * Robert Redford has signed on to play baseball executive Branch Rickey in a new biopic about the life of sports legend Jackie Robinson, the African-American athlete who broke through the color barrier in baseball.

T-Bone Burnett is an American original. A songwriter and performer steeped in our nation's deep musical heritage, T Bone has emerged from a self-imposed 14 year hiatus as a recording artist to release two highly-anticipated collections of music simultaneously: The True False Identity, his first album of new original songs since 1992, and 20/20: The Essential T Bone Burnett, a 40-song retrospective spanning Burnett's entire career of music-making. T Bone says of his extended break,

George Clooney celebrated his Oscar nominations by getting his colon examined. The actor - who is up for three awards for movies 'Goodnight and Good Luck' and 'Syriana' - says it helps calm his nerves. He is quoted in Entertainment Weekly: "I scheduled it when I knew that the nominations were coming because I figured any news is good news after that. 'You didn't get a nomination. Well, how's the colon looking?'''