Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz's baseball star ex Alex Rodriguez has been offered his first movie role - as a drag queen.

French filmmaker Philippe Mora has confirmed he has asked the New York Yankees stud if he'd be interested in portraying artist Salvador Dali's assistant Potassa in a new biopic, titled The Surrealist.

Mora tells the New York Post, "It's quite a good idea and has a serious side to it... At first it sounds hilarious, but it's a serious (offer)."

And he insists Rodriguez would be a good fit for a film about Dali - because the painter and sculptor was "obsessed with base...

Leonardo DiCaprio paid a staggering $1.2 million for a painting by legendary artist Salvador Dali, according to a report.

The Inception star was bidding on two works by Pablo Picasso at Christie's in New York earlier this week, but when he failed to win the items, he turned his attention to a piece by the surrealist.

Gallery worker Rachel Steckson tells the New York Post, "He bid on the Picassos, but it was clear the Dali was what he wanted. He turned around and was like, 'Yes!'"

DiCaprio is said to have bought the signed Chevaliers en parade piece, which shows a knight on horseback. ...

Robert Pattinson is still haunted by the nude scene he shot for 2008 movie Little Ashes - and it has made him think twice about disrobing for the camera ever again.

The British actor portrayed a young Salvador Dali in the film, and admits the very thought of the odd movie makes him feel sick - because he still remembers looking up and seeing a room full of men staring at him.

He says, "They give you a little robe and the moment where you have to take it off, you want to throw up and your whole body starts failing. I was doing this thing where I was refusing to look at anyone and just be...

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Cast your votes for your favorite male & female celebrities in Starpulse.com's First Annual "Celebrity March Madness" showdown! In the spirit of the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, we bring you two celebrity tournaments throughout the month of March that will determine the number one male and female celebrity - chosen by YOU!

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Ashlee Simpson's "Outta My Head," a three-song digital EP, will be released Feb 5, 2008. The EP includes two new songs, "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)" and "Rule Breaker," from her forthcoming album, Bittersweet World, along with a hidden gem from her last album.

The video for "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)" has influences from Ashlee's favorite artist, Salvador Dali.

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March 2008 will see the release of Ashlee Simpson's third album "Bittersweet World", which she described to Cosmo Girl as a, "fun party album," that's, "silly and quirky". But what does Simpson listen to when she's throwing a party, and what does she do for fun or when she's feeling silly? Starpulse found out by asking the pop star herself, as well as what she thinks about the high standards of beauty set by the media and its affects on women everywhere.

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"I love Salvador Dali so I went to his museum in Paris and I thought it was amazing and I loved the surrealism." Ashlee Simpson insists her new video for Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya) is inspired by the work of the late Spanish art legend.

"Most of the places we were going, you just couldn't drive any of the trucks there. So it was about finding a good tree stump when you weren't shooting." Actor Emile Hirsch didn't spend much time relaxing in his trailer on the set of Sean Penn's recent movie Into The Wild.

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Antonio Banderas and his wife paid $50,000 for sketches by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali at a charity UNICEF auction in Chile earlier this week.

Jane Fonda celebrated her 70th birthday with Rosie O'Donnell, her 9 To 5 co-star Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and ex-husband Ted Turner in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday night.

R&B star Rihanna has covered her own smash-hit Umbrella - recording an acoustic version of the track with additional lyrics. The track is the song most covered by other artists in 2007.

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Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze is heading back in time to recount the 1928 murder trial of Austrian photographer Phillipe Hallsman. The actor will star as Halsman's lawyer in the film, titled Jump.

The story revolves around court transcripts, which were sealed for 75 years, and follows Halsman's flight to America after he was wrongfully convicted amid anti-Semitic feeling in his native Austria.

Halsman went on to become a world-renowned photographer, whose subjects included Salvador Dali.

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Happy Birthday to Australian singer Holly Valance (1983), "Riding the Bullet" actor Jonathan Jackson (1982), Rammstein drummer Christoph Schneider (1966), "The White Countess" actress Natasha Richardson (1963), "House of Sand and Fog" actresses Shohreh Aghdashloo and Frances Fisher (both 1952), comedic actor Foster Brooks (1912; d. 2001), surrealism master Salvador Dali (1904; d. 1989), and composer Irving Berlin (1888; d. 1989).

Al Pacino is set for one of his greatest acting challenges after signing on to play eccentric artist Salvador Dali in a new biopic. The acting great will re-team with director Andrew Niccol for "Dali & I: The Surreal Story."

Shooting on the project is planned for this summer in New York and the late Dali's native Spain.

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Happy Birthday to Australian singer Holly Valance (1983), "Riding the Bullet" actor Jonathan Jackson (1982), Rammstein drummer Christoph Schneider (1966), "The White Countess" actress Natasha Richardson (1963), "House of Sand and Fog" actresses Shohreh Aghdashloo and Frances Fisher (both 1952), comedic actor Foster Brooks (1912; d. 2001), surrealism master Salvador Dali (1904; d. 1989), and composer Irving Berlin (1888; d. 1989).