FRENCH actress Isabelle Huppert (42) is to make her debut on the London stage tomorrow at the Royal National Theatre with the leading role in Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller.
The play, directed by Howard Davies, describes the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots who was imprisoned for 19, years by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, played by Anna Massey.
All Black winger Jonah Lomu has married his South African girlfriend, Tanya Rutter, in a private ceremony on the banks of Manukau Harbour in Auckland.
Both Lomu (20) and his 19 year old bride were dressed in white as they exchanged vows and rings to complete the romance which began during the World Cup in Bloemfontein last year.
Rev Jesse Jackson is taking on the Academy Awards for including only one black face among the 166 nominations in the upcoming Oscars, and is talking with several advocacy groups on the possibility of organising a protest.
"It doesn't stand to reason that if you are forced to the back of the bus, you will go to the bus company's annual picnic and act like you're happy," the former presidential hopeful told the Los Angeles Times.
Now that her marriage to Michael Jackson is part of history, Liza Marie Presley has said she is ready to follow her late father's footsteps in the music world. She has written a few tunes and set up a recording studio at her Los Angeles home.
According to a new biography of James Dean, the shy teenage idol had a homosexual relationship with a business executive who had supported him financially and emotionally in the 1950s.
Actress Elizabeth Sheridan says in Donald Spoto's forthcoming book, Rehel, that she had an affair with Dean at the time he was involved with Rogers Brackett, but denied the late Hollywood star was a homosexual.
Veteran jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli (88) has been in hospital in London after suffering heart failure and bronchial pneumonia last week, but is expected to go home today, his agent said.
Grappelli was born in Paris in 1908. He made Europe's first original contribution to jazz when he paired up with gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt to form the Hot Club de France Quintet in the 1930s.