Nobody ever listens to me about that proposed moratorium on Shakespeare (for just 10 years people --give other ancient playwrights a chance at movie & stage adaptations!) but if they're going to make another Shakespearean movie, at least it's not Hamlet. Prepping to shoot early next year is King Lear directed by Joshua Michael Stern (whose current movie is Swing Vote. Kevin Costner to Shakespeare... er, okay Hollywood). Sir Anthony Hopkins is set to play the self-sabotaging monarch. [src] In concept I love all-star casts but when the property involves familial casting it always freaks me ...

Supreme Court rules in favor of right to bear arms. Sir Ian McKellen made a Companion of Honour by the Queen. Cher has a stalker who tried to grab her by the wrist in Nashville. Obama-accuser Larry Sinclair, who was arrested last week when his criminal record caught up with him following an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is being defended by some as a "political prisoner". Remember Britain's Got Talent's angelic bullied choirboy Andrew Johnston? He didn't win, but he did just get a £1 million deal ...