"I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music." Garbage star Shirley Manson refuses to bow to record label pressure to make a commercial solo album. The untitled debut has been put on hold as the singer and her record label row over how best to sell the project to music fans.

"There should never be a Robert De Niro Story. But, if there was, Dustin Hoffman should play me." Robert De Niro jokes about pal Hoffman playing him in a biopic.

Horton Hears A Who! continues to draw a crowd at the top of the international box office. The family cartoon is the world's most popular movie outside the U.S. for a third week after taking $10.6 million over the weekend. 21 is a new entry at two with $8.1 million, while Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis drops a place to three with $6.5 million.

The Lemonheads' 1992 disc It's A Shame About Ray will receive the NME Classic Album award at the inaugural NME Awards USA in Los Angeles on April 23.

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