Funnyman Jon Lovitz is deadly serious after urging former pal Andy Dick to "avoid me like the plague" after the two comics came to blows at a Hollywood comedy club last week. Rat Race star Lovitz attacked Dick after a show at his regular Wednesday night Laugh Factory stand-up performance when the bespectacled comic refused to apologize for once threatening his fellow comedian's life.

* Anne Hathaway will star as British novelist Jane Austen in the film Becoming Jane. The film focuses on a love affair Austen began as a 20-year-old with brilliant, roguish Irishman Tom LeFroy, which inspired her career as one of the world's most romantic writers.