Don Cheadle recently tore his Achilles heel in a basketball game with rappers Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.

Actor Emile Hirsch is in final talks to recreate 1960s Japanese cartoon hero Speed Racer in a new Hollywood movie to be directed by brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski.

Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz is to wed musician Noah Lebenzon in Puerto Rica in June.

Spider-Man, The Hulk and the X-Men are set for a new home in Dubai as part of a $1 billion theme park. Marvel comics and the United Arab Emirates-based Al Ahili Group have joined forces to plan the park, which they hope to open in 2011.

Silver-haired movie star Richard Gere shaved his hair back, dyed it black and "got a humiliating perm" to play real-life hoaxer Charles Irving in new movie The Hoax.

Former heavyweight boxer-turned-cooking guru George Foreman will be among the judges on the upcoming second season of US reality TV contest American Inventor. Foreman is the brains behind the Foreman Grill. Music mogul Simon Cowell is an executive producer of the show.

Actress-turned-TV personality Rosie O'Donnell had a 45th birthday to remember on US morning show The View today when producers invited the casts of Les Miserables, A Chorus Line and The Color Purple as part of a Broadway tribute to the A League Of Their Own star.

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