Comedienne and Miss Great Britain host Joan Rivers has attacked the beauty pageant's contestants, dubbing them "morons." The acid-tongued 73-year-old, who presented the ceremony yesterday, claims the finalists were stupid, too thin and "tramps."

British actor Ralph Fiennes is at the center of an airplane sex scandal after allegedly following a flight attendant into a toilet. The Schindlers List star was on a long-haul journey from Australia to India late last month when he reportedly "became amorous" with 38-year-old Qantas stewardess Lisa Robertson.

Steven Spielberg has granted a German university access to his collection of 52,000 video interviews with survivors of the Holocaust. The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, which was established by the director following 1993 film Schindler's List, can now be accessed in full for the first time outside America by students at the Free University in Berlin.

Filmmaker Steve Zaillian is "shellshocked" following the U.S. box office failure and negative critical reaction to his star-packed movie All The King's Men. Zaillian, who won an Oscar in 1994 for his Schindler's List screenplay, is amazed his film starring Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins and James Gandolfini has flopped so spectacularly.

"AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies," a new entertainment special saluting the most inspiring films, will be broadcast Wednesday, June 14, (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. During the broadcast, the confidential list of 100 inspiring films will be revealed by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

The English Patient, A Clockwork Orange and Brokeback Mountain have been included in a shortlist of the best 50 books to make it to the big screen. The list, compiled by Britain's Book Marketing Society, honors literary classics turned into movie masterpieces and will be voted on by readers online and at U.K. bookshops.