That Hilary Duff plans to star in the remake of Bonnie and Clyde... Upon hearing the news, Faye Dunaway said: "Couldn't they have at least cast a real actress?"... Duff responded: "I think that my fans that are going to go see the movie don’t even know who she is. I think it (what she said) was a little unnecessary, but I might be mad if I looked like that now too"... That, of Jeremy Piven getting jip over having to leave the Broadway version of Speed The Plow over his "mercury levels", Mark Wahlberg said: "There's no one more disappointed about all this than him. He was so excited (about the play). He's getting a lot of flak about it and it's really unnecessary... Do I gotta go beat these guys up or what?"... That David Mamet would have several issues with the last sentence... Of getting married to his girlfriend Rhea Durham, Wahlberg continued: "If we do it here (in Los Angeles), it'll probably be just us and the kids. If we do it in Boston, I would say there'd be a lot more family members, so there'll be some fighting... It will definitely be in a Catholic church"... That Tony Mortimer and his chin are pursuing a solo career... A source said: "Tony was devastated the reunion came to nothing (Brian acted the ass, kept turning up late to meetings so Tony punched him. Brian and the other two now do gigs in nightclubs, which entails them shuffling around to a backing track). He spent much of the early part of the millennium hiding away in his Essex mansion. He's been in touch with old record label contacts and is determined to make a go of it as a solo artist"... Take That decided to get back together after an all night drinking binge... That Etta James took Beyonce singing At Last at President Obama's inauguration well... She recently said onstage: "You guys know your President, right? The one with the big ears? He ain't my President. He had that woman singing my song. She gonna get her ass whipped. The great Beyonce, she ain't mine. I can't stand Beyonce. She had no business up there singing on a big ol' President day, singing my song that I've been singing forever"... That Etta meant every word of it... That, of loosing the baby weight, Jessica Alba said: "I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist - any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, 'I slept in it.' I didn't recover as fast as she did. I don't have a six-pack - that's just not my body at all"... That Michael Phelps might be charged for possession after a picture of him hoofing off a bong at a party in South Carolina made it into the News Of The World... A statement reads: "The Richland County Sheriff's Department is making an effort to determine if Mr. Phelps broke the law. If he did, he will be charged in the same manner as anyone else. The Sheriff has a responsibility to be fair, to enforce the law and to not turn a blind eye because someone is a celebrity"... That Michael Phelps has successfully made the transition from Olympian to celebrity... That Caleb and Nathan Followill don't recall the reason behind a recent brawl in which Nathan received a broken arm: "We still don't know (why it started). It was a big one, though. We were really drunk, and one of us said something really deep and hurtful and that was it. Our assistant shuffled people out the door when he knew it was about to go down, and once the house cleared, it was like they let two dogs off their chains - we went crazy. It was just a good old Wednesday night in Nashville"... That Tom Cruise kept saying "hola" and "gracias" while promoting Valkyrie in Brazil... That John Cleese is still talking.... He had these words for his fellow pythons: "One of them's alright - the little guy who does the very boring travel programmes (Palin)... but the others are awful. Terry Jones is this excitable little Welshman; he and I never got on. What Terry cannot accept is that the Welsh are a servile nation that God put on the planet to carry out menial tasks for the English. Then there's Eric Idle - he's quite entertaining. Well, he writes good lyrics and he makes good jokes, and I think there's another one... Oh no, he's dead. It's good riddance actually - he (Chapman) was a terrible sponger. He drank a lot at one stage. Actually, what p**sed me off is when he went sober... within a year he was healthier than the rest of us, so I was very glad when he died"... That Terry Gilliam is miffed he didn't make the list...