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She has been a model, a pop star, a fashion designer and even a pole dancer, and now Kate Moss has set her sights on becoming a ballerina. The supermodel is working on a duet with ”Sex And The City” star Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is regarded as one of the great ballet dancers of the modern era, reported Daily Mail online.

Moss will star in a short film with the 62-year-old Russian, with the working title ”Baryshnimoss”, made by the renowned choreographer and director Michael Clark. The 36-year-old has been taking private ballet lessons with Clark and is set to embark on a gruelling three-month training regime before filming starts in Marseille in July.

Socialite Paris Hilton has angered people in Brazil with her new raunchy ad campaign for a beer company. The commercial shows the 29-year-old heiress wearing a short black dress preening and rubbing a can of Devassa beer on herself, to the delight of onlookers watching through her window, reported Access Hollywood.

Veteran actor Antony Hopkins has taken a pot shot at Paris Hilton and the current crop of celebrity socialites, comparing them to soulless “machines”.

The ”Silence of the Lambs” actor is fed up with skinny models and stars on the red carpet who lack substance and he’’s singled out the hotel heiress for appearing to have nothing “going on up there”, Contactmusic reported.

Dustin Hoffman’s stage fright caught him in a tight spot once again – the actor forgot his speech as he was handing out a trophy at the recent BAFTA Awards in London.

The 72-year-old star, who has always been afraid of speaking in public, was completely wrecked with fear when he presented Kathryn Bigelow with her award for The Hurt Locker.

Jennifer Garner and Anna Faris have reportedly signed on to star in a upcoming comedy blockbuster about “a high-school teacher recently left at the altar [who] must now send off her uptight cousin with a huge bachelorette bash.” According to Pajiba.com, the newlywed Faris and 13 Going On 30 star Garner have accepted the lead roles in Bachelorette Party, a proposed project based on the novel of the same name by Legally Blonde writer Karen McCullah Lutz.

Britain’s up-and-coming star Carey Mulligan won the best actress category at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) Sunday in London, where Kathryn Bigelow scooped up the best film and best director awards for her Iraq war drama ‘The Hurt Locker’.

Mulligan, 24, took the prize for her lead role in the British-made film ‘An Education’, based on a novel by Nick Hornby on the adolescent life of journalist Lynn Barber.

In what was a true veteran versus newcomer contest, Mulligan beat competition in the best actress category from Meryl Streep for ‘Julie & Julia’ and Audrey Tatou for ‘Coco Before Chanel’.

Shaking with emotion, Mulligan said after winning the award: ‘I really didn’t expect this at all, so I didn’t think of anything to say. Thank you so much, BAFTA. I was here a year ago, and I didn’t imagine in a million years that this would happen’.

Bigelow said she was overwhelmed by the dual recognition of best film and best director for her war epic, as she became the first woman in BAFTA history to win the best director award.

She fought off competition including ex-husband James Cameron, whose sci-fi blockbuster ‘Avatar’ had also been nominated in both categories.

‘Avatar’ and ‘The Hurt Locker’ had eight nominations each for best film, as did ‘An Education’.

‘This is beyond our wildest dreams. This is so unbelievable, we’re just so deeply honoured and humbled,’ said Bigelow.

British actor Colin Firth won the best actor award for his part in ‘A Single Man’.

At the start of the ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Prince William, 27, was announced as the new president of BAFTA, taking over from veteran filmmaker Richard Attenborough.

Michael Jackson reportedly called his personal doctor the “best in the world” just two days before he died of drugs administered by his trusted medic.

The King of Pop was purportedly full of praises for cardiologist Conrad Murray, who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter over the singer’s death and faces a preliminary trial in the next few months.

“My doctor is the best in the world. I feel completely comfortable with him. I trust this guy with my life. He’s an incredible guy and understands what I need. He is a friend to me and my family,” News of the World quoted him as apparently telling aides.

“He makes me feel good about myself, and young again. Without him I wouldn’t be able to function. I need him to make my body – this machine – work the way it does,” he was said to have added.

One onlooker said: “It was like Michael was going out of his way to make out Murray was a Nobel Prize-winning medic. He made a point of talking up Murray.” (ANI)

R&B star Beyonce Knowles has emerged as the most successful musician of this century’’s first decade in America in a new list. Compiled by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the list has the ”Single Ladies” singer topping both the albums and video certifications and ringtone certifications countdown.

The 28-year-old star has landed 64 gold and platinum certifications for sales of albums and videos and a further 19 for ringtones, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Eagles came out to be the topper among all music groups with 48 total gold and platinum awards, while pop icon Michael Jackson led the male solo artists” list with 44.

Gold awards are presented for sales of 500,000 albums, digital songs or ringtones, and platinums are handed out to artists who pass the one million mark.(PTI)

Former Dynasty star Joan Collins has landed a role on a German soap opera. At 76, the diva has been cast to play an English aristocrat on the popular German-language daytime drama Verbotene Liebe. Joan makes her German soap debut in April.

What’s the most exciting aspect of Joan’s new gig — she doesn’t have to learn a new language to take part. Producers will allow the  actress to recite her lines in English.

Music legend Paul McCartney hopes the recording studio The Abbey Road, famously used by the Beatles, can be saved after it was put up for sale by record label giant EMI. The Abbey Road recording facilities in North West London became synonymous with the Fab Four, with the band even naming their 1969 album after the building, BBC online reported. The record’’s cover shot featured the Beatles crossing the road outside.

Fans across the world have since flocked to the landmark, and the studio has also been used by music greats including Michael Jackson, U2, Green Day and Pink Floyd. Bosses at EMI, who own the studios, have decided to try and recoup money lost in recent years by selling the property, which is expected to be worth an estimated USD 20 million.