BRITISH show business yesterday marked Sir Alec Guinness's 82nd birthday with a plaque erected outside the London headquarters of Equity, the actors' union. The star of 45 films over the last 60 years approved of the venue the union had backed his demand 60 years ago to have his weekly wages as a theatre understudy upped 50 per cent to £3, he said.
Actor director Clint Eastwood (65), and television news journalist Dina Ruiz (30), were married last Sunday at a private ceremony in Las Vegas. They have been seeing each other for about a year.
Mother Teresa (85), was released from hospital in Calcutta yesterday. She fell last Sunday and broke her collar bone.
Christopher Reeve, the paralysed former Superman star, is to resume his movie career as the voice of King Arthur in the forthcoming animated feature The Quest for Camelot.
Screenwriter Raphael Blau (83), has died in New York. Blau wrote Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) in which Ronald Reagan starred with a chimpanzee. Other Blau films include Fear Strikes Out (1957) and Girl of the Night (1960).
US film director Oliver Stone has denied Mexican press reports he plans to make a film on the 1994 assassination of Mexico's presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. According to the reports, Stone had a film script attributing the murder to a conspiracy by drug traffickers.