Zeta-Jones plans film set in India

Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to visit India with husband Michael Douglas to shoot a new film, a newspaper on Thursday quoted her as saying.

Zeta-Jones told the Times of India newspaper she was currently developing the script with Douglas. The newspaper did not say when it would be ready or when the couple would visit.

“We will take our kids and all of us will come there, set a camp in India and shoot a film,” Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar in 2003 for her role in the musical “Chicago,” told the newspaper. “I’m looking forward to going to India.”

India’s media went into a frenzy last year when Hollywood heavyweights Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with their children, stayed in the country for a month to shoot a film.

Asked if she had watched any Indian films, Zeta-Jones replied she had seen a lot of Bollywood movies, “though I can’t remember the names now.”

Zeta-Jones plans film set in India

Hollywood actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is set to visit India with husband Michael Douglas to shoot a new film, a newspaper on Thursday quoted her as saying.

Zeta-Jones told the Times of India newspaper she was currently developing the script with Douglas. The newspaper did not say when it would be ready or when the couple would visit.

“We will take our kids and all of us will come there, set a camp in India and shoot a film,” Zeta-Jones, who won an Oscar in 2003 for her role in the musical “Chicago,” told the newspaper. “I’m looking forward to going to India.”

India’s media went into a frenzy last year when Hollywood heavyweights Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, along with their children, stayed in the country for a month to shoot a film.

Asked if she had watched any Indian films, Zeta-Jones replied she had seen a lot of Bollywood movies, “though I can’t remember the names now.”

Zeta Jones’s recipe for getting back into shape

She famously said she ‘ate for Wales’ while pregnant and once tipped the scales at 13st.

But as the picture shows, Catherine Zeta-Jones now has a figure most mothers of two would envy.

Posing for InStyle magazine, the 37-year-old showed off perfectly toned legs and a trim midriff - perhaps even looking a little too good to be true.

There was not a hint of spare flesh or the weight she admitted was so hard to shift after giving birth.

While some cynics will always put picture perfection down to airbrushing, Miss Zeta-Jones says she has achieved her slimline figure by a combination of healthy eating and exercise.

The Welsh actress, who spends most of her time at her Bermuda home with husband Michael Douglas, 62, admitted indulging in her favourite sandwiches during her two pregnancies.

While carrying Dylan, now aged seven, she ballooned to 13st. She had an easier time shifting the pounds after the birth of her daughter Carys, now four.

Catherine Zeta-Jones insists that people are mistaken when they make up their minds that she is a ‘diva’.

The Chicago star has earned a reputation for being a demanding star, but Zeta-Jones is adamant that the belief is wrong.

Instead of being a diva, she says, what she really happens to be is shy and reserved.

She will now be seen on the big screen in the romantic comedy ‘No Reservations’.

And one person who is really glad that she’s taken on this role is hubby Michael Douglas, as he strongly believes that the film will illustrate his spouse’s softer side.

The characters of strong-headed, tough women that Zeta-Jones is known for playing in films like ‘Traffic’, ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ and ‘The Mask Of Zorro’ have always kept Douglas worried that the world will never get to know what a lovely person his wife is.

Catherine Zeta-Jones’ main priority isn’t her acting career, it’s her husband, Michael Douglas, and their two young children.

Zeta-Jones, who won a 2003 supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Chicago,” married Douglas in 2000. They have two children ¡ª son, Dylan, 6, and daughter, Carys, 4 ¡ª and live much of the year on the island of Bermuda.

The couple also have homes in Manhattan and Majorca, Spain, and a farm in Quebec, Canada. “Some people collect art,” she says. “We collect houses.”

Zeta-Jones, whose movie credits also include “Ocean’s Twelve” and “Traffic,” isn’t about to quit acting just yet. In the upcoming dramedy “No Reservations,” she portrays a chef whose life takes a new turn when she becomes the guardian of a 9-year-old niece. She’s also wrapped up “Death Defying Acts,” about Harry Houdini.

“No Reservations,” a Warner Bros. release, opens July 27. (AP)

Hollywood’s Drew Barrymore has been named an Ambassador against Hunger for the United Nation’s World Food Program, the organization announced Wednesday.

Barrymore, recently on the cover of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People, was in Washington Wednesday, where she stumped for legislation that would expand the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which regulates funding for school meals, E! News said.

The 32-year-old actress will focus on school meal programs, saying, “I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

Barrymore, currently seen in “Lucky You” with Eric Bana, joins a growing list of actors spotlighting different global issues. Angelina Jolie is an an ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, while Michael Douglas acts as a U.N. envoy for non-proliferation. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Madonna, Don Cheadle and Leonardo DiCaprio also have attached their names worldwide to social causes.

The esteemed Barrymore lineage can now count an ambassador among its ranks.

Drew Barrymore has been tapped to be an Ambassador against Hunger for the United Nation’s World Food Program, the organization announced Wednesday.

“I am honored and humbled to accept this challenging and rewarding assignment,” said the 32-year-old actress, who will focus on improving school feeding programs. “I can’t think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.”

Fresh from gracing the cover of People magazine’s recent 100 Most Beautiful People issue, Barrymore spoke from Washington, D.C., where she was on Capitol Hill to help lobby Congress about passing draft legislation that would expand the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which regulates funding for school meals.

“Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing¡ªbut it works miracles,” the Charlie’s Angels star said. “School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives¡ªand ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.”

The actress, who’s currently on the big screen with Eric Bana in Lucky You and just hit DVD yesterday with Hugh Grant in Music and Lyrics, recently returned from her second trip to Kenya, where she joined her fellow Ambassador against Hunger, marathon world record-holder Paul Tergat, to visit sites where U.N.’s World Food Project is in effect.

¡±We are delighted to have Drew Barrymore join our team,” WFP executive director Josette Sheeran said. “Her passion and commitment to changing the world for the better¡ªand of course the respect and admiration she commands¡ªwill make her a wonderful champion for school feeding.”

Barrymore joins a growing list of A-listers that includes Angelina Jolie (an ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees), Michael Douglas (a U.N. messenger of peace for non-proliferation), Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Madonna, Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio and many others who have in recent years added “improve global living conditions” to their to-do lists.

Michael Douglas described her as “a great actress with a fantastic body ¨C what more could a man ask for?”, while Jack Nicholson advised any man to “steer clear or lose his head.”

The Latina actress, who is planning her July wedding to her boyfriend of two years Tony Parker, admits she doesn’t mind a bit of light bondage.

She enthuses, “I’m not averse to being tied up - I like a man to take charge.

“There’s something very sexy about being submissive.”

“It’s all about clothes, confidence and being adventurous,” she says. “I’ve done a lot of dating in my life and it¡¯s only now that I’ve really got to be as confident as I am.

Eva Longoria wants more sexy movie roles.

The ‘Desperate Housewives’ actress, who shot to fame playing seductress Gabrielle Solis on the hit US show, is disappointed by the lack of racy parts she is offered.

She said: “Probably 80 per cent of the scripts I’m sent are dramatic. I’ve had very few sexy offers, to the point where I’m getting annoyed and going, ‘Hey where’s the sexy stuff?’ I’m going for the sexy roles for as long as I can, because women have an expiration date in this business.”

Eva’s last big screen outing was in 2006’s ‘The Sentinel’, in which she starred opposite Michael Douglas.

In the movie, the petite brunette played a gun-toting Secret Service and despite her girly persona, her co-star revealed she was the best shot.

Douglas said at the time: “The FBI, Secret Service, and state police all said that she probably shot better than 90 per cent of the police officers in the US.” (Hollywoodrag.com)